One of the biggest opportunities in the Pinoy internet scene is social news. Popularized by Digg & Slashdot, it’s a web service that allows people to submit articles and get voted on. The articles with the top votes make it to the front page. In theory, it’s real democracy. We need one of these sites for Pinoys. Why? With news still controlled by the old media giants, it’s difficult for a little blogger to get some spotlight. I see a Pinoy Digg helping bring attention things that we need to resolve like the killing of journalists, corruption and etc. Not everyone has the patience or time to read PCIJ or Manuel Quezon. With GMA or Inquirer looking to gain momentum in the blogosphere, perhaps they should have a social section? I can see Yehey doing this as well. ABS-CBN will not do it because they want to own everything. I suspect something like this is in the works with the major players but might be hesitant due to fear being spammed or sued for what other people post on their site. Until then, here are some sites trying to catch on.

OKs.ph is the best looking of the group. It looks like it’s custom programming and not based on the open source Pligg as the others are. Great design and a lot of content due to it also being an aggregator. The downside is that I didn’t see much Pinoy content.

PinoyBlogosphere.net(down as I write this) is on Pligg but has a lot of potential due to the large amount of Pinoys that post on the group blog, PinoyBlogosphere.com. It would be great if they could port the entries from the .com site to the .net side.

Noypi.com is fairly new. It used to be a blog but is now running Pligg. There’s not much content but it’s all Pinoy.

Astigg is another Pligg powered site. They do have a lot more content than Noypi.com. I like the name.

Kablogs = Pligg powered site. Same thing as Noypi and Astigg.