Many of us on digg.com think MySpace is a blight on the face of the internet. It's no better than Geocities was 7 years ago. At the very least, it could be done better, and probably much more quickly, at little to no out of pocket expense. I really think it's ridiculous that Facebook has turned down offers in excess of $1b.

I proposed we build a team of Diggers to create a social network to rival both sites, using freely available collaboration tools and open source web application infrastructure (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP).

This will be a democratic collaboration with a few guidelines (subject to change based on user input):

• Designers/Developers/Beta Testers will be able to suggest and vote on features.
• Developers and designers whose contributions are accepted into the development or design team will have a share in the profitability of the project determined by a process we will decide upon later.
• Advertising will be minimal on the final product, if it's present at all. There are ways to live without banner ads.

The rest is up to everyone involved.

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