The digg.com site has gained a large following ever since it launched in 2004. For any internet-savvy user who has visited the digg site, it is amazing how a simple community billboard forum can be so successful. Digg is basically a community-based popularity website with special focus on current and emerging technologies as well as science articles. It has recently expanded its subject focus to include a broader range of topics such as governance and politics. Digg features a mix of social bookmarking, blogging and forum posting with a democratic editorial content control. Digg allows users to submit websites and news items that are then promoted to the site’s front page via a user-participated ranking system. This gives the site its distinct flavor and popularity.

Joomlaapps has long noted the feature set of Digg and now offers a Joomla-based mDigg Component System that offers basically the same features enjoyed at the digg.com site. It is basically a tribute to the Digg site to make it available for individuals and non-profit organization and ministries to launch similar community sites for their members. Like Digg.com, mDigg provides more than just a Joomla community forum that allows its members to enjoy the site as it grows in features and services.

Once you install the mDigg Component system, registered users of your Joomla site can start to post URLs, vote and promote them, participate in forum discussions and do just nearly as much as digg member users do. This time, you can configure and customize mDigg to blend with your site’s look and feel and define the coverage of its subject focus and discussions. The basic functionality of the mDigg Component is social bookmarking sites and URL voting. Other functionalities include user recommendation of sites and articles, discussions about the Joomla site, and enabling downloads of multimedia files posted in the discussion forums.

Just like the Digg site, mDigg Component System application enables Joomla websites to support downloads and uploads of multimedia rich content for all its content categories like its discussion forums. And as in many forums, thumbnails are created and linked to the associated forum posts.

Features: 

• Bookmarking urls or sites
• Popular Videos and audio file formats supported
• Voting system
• Forum discussion board
• Category management
• System administration tools to manage content