Who says that being active in comments is a waste of marketing exposure? We received an email notification that a new comment was added to a comment we had posted. Intrigued by the URL provided, we decided to look at the the Dua4Me site.

As the name implies, the site encourages that you make a dua (Arabic for supplication) for me or anyone else. Essentially, Dua4Me is a Digg-style site that ranks duas. Instead of the usual ‘vote for me’ plea on most Digg-style sites, an added dimension is the spiritual request of actually supplicating for the person or cause described in the dua listing.

We have made one dua request for our friends at Illume Magazine to test Dua4Me. Soon after, we received an email from Safi, Dua4Me creator and administrator, who mentioned that he hopes to develop his site “into an Islamicized/Spiritual Next Generation Digg.” Also, IslamCrunch was the first registered user – another experience for us as early adopter beta testers.

Dua4Me uses Pligg, the free open-source social content management system. Other Islamic sites that use Pligg are UmmahWatch and Good Muslim News. All three sites are not listed on Pligg.org – a free directory of Pligg powered sites.

UPDATE: Brother Safi has added a dua request for IslamCrunch. Please visit this link to make dua for us. Thanks!