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Iran: Iranian Digg or Reddit!

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 @ 17:41 UTC

by Farid Pouya

Countries:: Iran
Topics:: Ideas, Media

Zharf says he has launched a new site similar [Fa] to digg and reddit in Persian. The blogger says site's name is Balatarin and everybody can add a link to that. All of the links on Balatarin will be from users who are rewarded for good submissions (and punished for bad ones) by their peers.

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Keyvan

Diggeh.com is an alternative to balatarin. It is much cleaner. Diggeh is uniquely in primarily English font, though perfectly capable of handling Persian font.

http://www.diggeh.com

# 2007-06-10 at 18:40 pm

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