The Digg of Sports

Written by Pablo Palatnik on June 28, 2007

As the big websites/portals/communities set the standard for what has become Web 2.0, more and more websites will take the same idea and target a niche audience.

I launched SOJJO.com, a website dedicated and made by users who love to talk about sports. Sojjo.com is the Digg of sports.

“Sojjo was created on the idea of building a social online community for those who are passionate and enjoy the world of sports. Sojjo allows users to have a voice and share their opinions with others. Sojjo is made by users, for users, being the first user-generated content sports news website.

Sojjo’s functionalities include: Creating a user profile, requesting friends, commenting on stories, voting on stories, submitting new stories, and more to come…”

Why? I love sports. I love to talk about sports and the only website I read is ESPN.com and I thought, I’d love to comment on a story, maybe interact with others to see what they think. I love the concept of Digg, always have…and put two and two together and got Sojjo.

I will tell you in further blogs what I’ve done (along with my brother) to make this project what it will become. Many sports fanatics have their favorite place to go and read stories online, hopefully we can establish a community where those users unite, and share thoughts with each other.

Since we are on a small budget for this project and relying on our users to be biggest form of advertising and generating buzz (word of mouth), I was able to create a YouTube commercial for $0.

This project is in its very beginning stages…still in BETA.