WPscoop is a social news and networking site aimed at the wordpress community. WPscoop is powered by the number one award winning CMS system drupal and has many advanced features like story submission, promotion, friends, messaging, groups, forum and many more social networking features.

With the Drigg social news system for Drupal becoming a popular choice for starting your own digg, reddit or mixx featured website a common question is what sites are using Drigg. This article lists ten active websites that have deployed the Drigg for Drupal system in a live environment, we also only listed sites that are established, active and have made an effort with their site design

I hope all is well with everybody in Wordpress land. And hopefully you have all seen our ‘new look’ WPScoop. Stuart has been working hard all weekend to bring us a new theme for our site, and I must say it looks great!

Social News sites are a popular subject and it seems everybody wants to start a digg clone of some type nowadays for various different reasons, many social news sites launch however very few ever become even relatively successful. So is it worth starting a Digg Clone type website and if you decide it is what system should you use and how can you give it the best chance of success, in this article we hope to provide some information gained from experience to help answer some of these questions.

Due to several work related issues it has taken longer than expected for me to publish this second part in our "Build A Digg Clone With Drigg For Drupal" tutorial, but the wait is over as this is the second part you are now reading :). Here in Part two we are going to go through the process of installing Drupal and the Drigg related modules along with all the configuration setting you will need to set for the system to operate as it should. We always think Pictures can be better than words for new users to any system so this tutorial will have screen shots of each step as we go, so lets begin.

Adding social networking icons into a WordPress theme looks like it would be simple but there are some more advanced parts of it. I searched for tutorials but didn’t find too many that talked about how to make your own icons and links.

Used by many news portals, the technique above is a great example of how to optimize layout of breaking news. We have gone the simple way with the image above, using a combination of Photoshop layers over a background image. The way it is implemented for Wordpress platform by Derek Punsalan illustrates the power of wordpress custom fields, and also the limits of this input system.

Drigg can be installed in two ways.

The first one is the "express way" - a "Drupal distribution" offered here at drigg-code.org which includes a working copy of Drupal and a basic database schema that will give you a pre-configured site.

Or, you can do it yourself. Doing it yourself is not actually much more complicated. You will still need to configure your web server properly. You may still have to refer to Drupal's official documentation if you have any installation problems.

Social Media Networking really important for people who share interests and activities, or who are interested in exploring the interests and activities of others. Most social network services are web based and provide a variety of ways for users to interact, such as e-mail, blogging, instant messaging, photo sharing and gaming services.

Social networking has created new paths to communicate and share information. Social networking websites are being used regularly by millions of people, and it now seems that social networking will be an enduring part of everyday life.