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On December 5th, 2004, Kevin Rose made history with digg.com. Kevin probably didn’t realize on that day that he is about to make a revolution with just $1000. Now leading up to finish two years, Digg.com is worth millions and is considered one of the top technology web sites even after Digg.com expanded its service to other markets. Now hundreds of community driven sites has emerged out of no where. In this article I am going to discuss about five sites that I have been following. These sites are considered to actually show its heads above the water compared to all others.

1. shoutwire.com – This is a general news site. It is designed nicely with a good layout.

2. netscape.com – Again another general news site. I am sure all of you heard of this and the controversy behind this.

3. techtagg.com – The first one with an approach to revenue share with its user. Good idea to keep their users for long time. Nice design and a different look to traditional digg.com site.

4. care2.com – General News site. Nice design.

5. meneame.net – Spanish news site. Actually a successful one for that kind and is open source.

I’ve gone through many digg.com like sites and was actually came to these as user friendly and has something to offer for users. Yes I may have missed some and if I did then post it in comments. Many clones have no user base and no stories. The owners may have put in a lot of time and effort to create those sites to be an instant success but something they need to learn is that “if you are not the first then don’t create the same unless it is with a twist”.

I have not mentioned about reddit or del.icio.us because they are almost like digg site but with a different purpose. Plus they are thousands of miles in front of the ones listed above.

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