Top 5 Open Source Clone scripts
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Written by - Saurav... |
Clone Scripts are the new buzzword in webmasters arena. Now for running a hugely popular website do not require you to code for years. There are thousands of clone scripts which can be customized and set up to run a successful business. But what exactly is a clone script. These are coded to work exactly as a bigger website of which they are clone of.
For example Pligg is a clone of Digg and can be used to run your own social bookmarking website just like Digg.
Do these become successful ? Ofcourse as they try to imitate the same successful model with your fresh idea. IndianPad.com is a website made with pligg with an alexa rank of 1800. Similarly wikitravel is a website made with mediawiki (A script on which wikiepdia is built with) and is immensely successful.
Here are Top 5 Free Open Source Clone Scripts : -
1.MediaWiki – Mediawiki is the software behind wikipedia. The collaborative knowledge management which rose to top 10 websites of the world. Whatever the thing we search on internet , 99% of the time it gets a search result from wikipedia.
WikiTravel is a wiki focussed for travel destinations . It has an alexa rank around 3k and is most popular travel portal around the world.
2. Jobberbase – Jobberbase is an Open source job classified script made for those who want to run a job website without the hassles of registration. The script support many themes and extendible plugins which make it a great choice for running a employment portal.
3. Elgg - Elgg is an open source social networking script for running your own facebook or orkut. It is power packed with features like creating groups , following users and wire post just like twitter update. Go for elgg if you want to run a social networking website.
4. Pligg – Pligg is the first clone script of Digg written in PHP and MySQL . It has recieved more than 2 lacs downloads since its inception. It works exactly as digg and that makes it a hugely popular clone script. Bestofindya.com and indianpad.com cashed it at the right time and are earning big amount of adsense revenue.
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ShareTronix – Sharetronix is just like twitter with added features like picture upload and video embed. It looks even better than twitter and takes minutes to install on your server.
Katrina responded on 13 Mar 2010 at 12:00 pm #
I think Pligg is awesome, I wanna look more into it, and then use it on my website
Great to have so many Clones coming up…
Free Question answer script list | MeraBheja responded on 25 Aug 2010 at 9:20 pm #
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lisa responded on 12 Oct 2010 at 2:10 am #
you have posted that you have burnt your fingers trying them
Saurav responded on 12 Oct 2010 at 2:13 am #
Trying a clone script don’t mean success ensured, just like using wordpress don’t make you millionaire, but for some persons it did …
Santosh responded on 14 Mar 2011 at 9:04 pm #
Hi Saurav,
If clones are used by so many people, what are top 2 differentiators for being successful among many clones. I am planning to start a new Social bookmarking website like BestOfIndya.com. What are your tips for me to become successful? Any other reading references will be helpful.
Saurav responded on 18 Mar 2011 at 3:40 am #
@santosh , see i may sound philosophical but look how same wordpress leads to techcrunch and same wordpress leads to 99 % unsuccessful bloggers …
the major differentiators in case of launching a bookmarking websites is how you channelize the submitted content and how you market it well to initialize the engine …