Negaraku now Digg style
Negaraku the local news aggregator I posted about some time back has gone through it’s evolution cycle and now emerged as a Digg clone.
Cloning other application is always a bad idea but in my book if you are able to provide something the competition doesn’t then the idea will work. In the case of Negaraku, the information is localized to Malaysia. Even Google sees localized data as one of it biggest hurdle.
The original aggregator was slow buggy thus the need to evolve. The new Digg styled site is way better the the original. The site appears to be faster when compared to the original aggregator. The layout is simple, uncluttered and colors easy on the eyes.
Submissions are still broken up into their own categories like politics, business,tech, politics and a few others. This helps users easily access their information of choice. Each category is also publish via RSS for easy access. Another benefit of going Digg style is that high rated submissions always show up first rescuing users from wasting their time combing though useless submissions.
So what happen to the old aggregator? It’s still alive at news.negaraku.net .
In short I like Negaraku Digg Style. What do you think?
Source: Negaraku || news.negaraku.net
Tags: blog, Blogs, Malaysia, malaysian news, news, politicians, rss, rss aggregator






















Yuen-Chi Lian | July 28th, 2008 at 10:08 am #
I always wonder how hard it is for them (clones) to integrate with existing Digg platform ?
Just make Digg a storage and extend the extra features you need on top of it. Unless they’re having the fear of Digg will close down earlier than their sites.
yc