A Look Inside Hosting Bookmarks
Since I am from the web hosting world and industry, HostingBookmarks.com is a favorite stop of mine. It is a digg-like social news site for the web hosting elite. At the helm of this project is Dimitar Avramov, the well known web hosting blogger. I recently had the chance to pick his brain to take a deeper look at HostingBookmarks.com and some other projects of his.
What made you want to organize and create HostingBookmarks.com?
Let me first say “Thank you Mitch” for the opportunity to speak to one of the finest audiences in hosting industry - yours. So, what made me to create HB… well, to be honest I’ve seen an empty niche and asked myself “Why don’t you create a web site with reference to web hosting related content”. I had two options - to develop branded software or to use any Open source application. The first would take much time so I find Pligg used it to create Hosting Bookmarks. I maintain the web site much-more as a hobby than to profit from it.
How has the success been since your launch?
There aren’t too many people who are willing to contribute. There are five to ten people who are looking to bookmark quality content. Others try to spam or mostly to do promote own content which in most cases is far from web hosting. They get banned. Up to date the web site refers to more that 3,000 quality articles related to web hosting.
