Viggification
Today over at Homethinking, we launched RealEstateVoices, a social news site for real estate.
The site is based an open source project called Pligg, which replicates many of the features of sites like Digg and Reddit. Even though those sites have been growing like weeds, editorial direction is concentrated among a few that enjoy technology, weird things and not much else.
Other verticals are launching, from search to celebrities. But there isn’t a clear forum for real estate news, so we decided to start one.
The challenge seems to be getting across the 4-8 votes per story chasm. To that end, I joined with a few friends to act as community leaders and hope to add one or two more in the next few weeks. Hopefully we will.
To encourage contributors we are giving link love and may put an adsense banner on the site and then use the proceeds for a bar tab for the leaders at say one of the Inman conferences (Mike has done that in the past with Javablogs and it seemed to work well). If you have any other ideas, would love to hear them in the comments.
