One of the sure-fire route to success is to duplicate and improve on an existing business model. Here are 3 cheap PHP scripts that can help you create the next Digg, YouTube and AdBrite clones. Pligg (Digg clone) vShare (YouTube clone) AdQuick (Adbrite clone)
Price: FREE
http://www.pligg.com
Digg is a community-driven content site that lets its members submit anything from news to blog posts to images and podcasts. Right at the heart of Digg is a voting engine that lets members give thumb-ups or thumb-downs to the submitted content, deciding what gets promoted to the frontpage and what gets buried. A favourite with self-promoting spammers, the Web 2.0 initiative has come a long way - from Kevin Rose’s (Digg’s founder and former TechTV host) basement to serving over 152 million pages a month!
Price: $10
http://www.buyscripts.in
Unless you’ve been hiding out in the woods for the last 2 years, you’d definitely have heard of YouTube - the most popular video sharing site on the Internet. Apart from personal videos, YouTube is also a dumping ground for cam whores, paparazzi clips and ripped movies. Based on last year’s statistics, YouTube was serving up to 100 million videos a day when Google scooped them up for a whopping $1.65 billion.
Price: $299
http://www.phplemon.com
AdBrite is the brainchild of Philip Kaplan, who created it in 2002 to serve as a marketplace for website publishers and advertisers. Publishers get to advertise available text/banner spaces on their website and set their own prices, while advertisers can browse the available inventory by demographics and buy ads using a credit card - AdBrite takes a 30% cut. The self-service marketplace is immensely popular, serving over 750 million ad impressions monthly and boasting a collection of 33,000 websites, including biggies like Alexa, Friendster, LinkedIn and BoingBoing.
