Hi there!, it’s amazing how fast time goes by. It’s been 19 days after I was fired at my job, let me tell you what I ‘ve been doing these days:
My first Web 2.0 News Site
The next day I went out of work, I opened my first Web 2.0 News site, which is Newsclap.com. This is a site that works pretty much like Digg.com or Propeller.com. You can submit stories that you find in other places and then the members of the community vote for the stories that are more relevent or interesting. This website also works like a blog in the sense that you can also make comments on the news or stories.
The reason I started this site is because these type of sites are part of this wave of Web 2.0 sites that are dominating the web these days. I had already used some of the main Web 2.0 sites, but it was very difficult to make it to the homepage due to the great number of users and stories that are being submitted, besides, some of them tend to post stories of all kind of topics, so I said to myself, why not start my own?
Pligg – The platform used to run NewsClap
NewsClap.com is built with the CMS called Pligg.com, which is an open source platform like WordPress.org although Pligg is not as well developed as WordPress. I’ve spent these tw0 weeks tweaking the look and feel as well as making some changes to the code so the site runs as I want it. This task hasn’t been easy for me as I’m a Public Accountant and I know almost nothing about PHP and MySQL, so unless you know what you are doing or like making changes to your sites via trial and error like me, I don’t recommend you do it yourself.
Newsclap is almost ready
Overall, the site is already setup and working, basically all I have to do is to start adding content to it. I plan to automate this task the first days in the meantime it gets well known and get some users, hopefully it doesn’t take too long.
I intend to monetize this blog initially with Google Ads and then when it has a decent amount of traffic, I intend to change Adsense for private ads.
UPDATE: I successfully sold this website in mid 2008 for US$220 dollars so not bad for something I did in one month, and with very little maintenance work.
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