Cool.
I'm new to Pligg, but have been reading up on it, here in the forums and elsewhere online. I've also been reading a lot of commentary on the Digg model and voting sites in general and it seems to me that Pligg could really separate itself from the pack as a
CMS if it expanded its idea of how someone could order the content. If an admin had 10-12 options for how he wanted to order the links, and could weight the different variables in a forumula....well that'd be pretty awesome.
I found a link to a php script that will return the alexa ranking of a URL. You can see it here:
http://data.alexa.com/data?cli=10&da...=www.slate.com
When someone submits a link, pligg could lookup the alexa ranking of the submitted URL and store that in the database. If that number could be factored into that ranking math, that'd be really awesome.
I guess I've just been thinking of how Pligg's got the Digg model more or less figured out...so what's next when Digg becomes not so cool anymore?
Modules that would add these functions would really take it to the next level, using both explicit and implicit data (both votes/ratings and views/alexa/pagerank/# comments/#e-mailed etc etc)
I'd be happy to chat off forum about this if anyone's interested. I think this could be a really neat project.