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May 13, 2007
Introducing TwoOuts.com
I had mentioned earlier a little poker project in the works. I don't know if it's quite ready for prime time yet, but the people who tested it and responded seemed to like it. You can find it at twoouts.com. It's based on some open source software that I'm modifying, so it should be pretty stable unless I mess it up too bad. I've been mucking around with some of the php a little and am going to try to add in some features.
It's a social news site, like Digg or Reddit, meant solely for poker. You can submit news articles, blog entries, forum posts, tournament results, or pretty much anything else poker-related. You can also vote on the ones you like. As a submission gets voted up it moves up the page, as it ages it moves down, keeping a mix of popularity and novelty.
There's only one rule, which is all submissions must be of interest to poker players (not necessarily poker-related, but not too off topic) and not blatant advertisements. You can vote without registering for now, though that may have to change later, but you have to sign up to submit something. Please feel free to do either and tell me what you think. The easiest way to add a post is to add this link to your bookmarks (just drag it there) and then click it whenever you see something you want to submit. It will automatically submit whatever is on the page you were on when you clicked.
There's also an RSS feed here so you can see all of the latest stories. So what do you think? Is this potentially helpful, or will it die a slow, userless death? I'd like this to become an efficient news source, and if you have any ideas as to how to improve it they'd be greatly appreciated.
Posted by themaroon at May 13, 2007 10:54 PM
Comments
Why would you attempt rip off the Digg design man? And why do it so poorly at that.
You have a great concept here, but this is more along the lines of plagiarism.
Just IMO.
Posted by: Jason at May 14, 2007 7:04 PM
I'm not sure how you mean that. If you mean the idea of social news, as far as I know that was invented by de.licio.us/popular and just taken one step further. I'm simply taking that one very small step further by applying it to a niche market, though that was not my idea either.
If you mean the aesthetics, that's because the open source software I use is a clone of digg. In the software world that's not plagiarism at all and is fairly common. As far as I know the Digg guys have no problem with it.
If successful I plan to have my own software developed.
Posted by: Matthew Maroon at May 14, 2007 11:43 PM
Yes, Matt's using Pligg.com software which if you go to their site you can see is very similar to digg.
Matt, one suggestion, what about creating a twoouts.com social bookmarking link and/or image like digg do that other sites can add to the end of their posts. Like "Digg This" in other words.
Cheers...Graham
Posted by: Graham Cox at June 1, 2007 9:43 AM