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Tcritic launches TDigger

But not anymore. The new TDigger site from Tcritic brings digg-like voting to the t-shirt world, complete with a tagging system and an easy shirt submission system. Powered by the open source CMS Pligg and a nice implementation of what looks like Lightbox so you can see a large version of a shirt before voting, Tdigger is a nice addition to a great blog for those who just can't get enough shirts.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Karl said 12:10AM on 4-22-2007
Hey David, thanks for the great write up, really appreciate it. Just wanted to let you know the image upload and lightbox implimentation is built into an image upload module for pligg. Also another interesting feature is users can put their own adsense code in their profile which means their adsense block will show up next to their submissions, making sure in the future the top users will actually get compensated, and that's an out of the box feature on pligg.
Cheers!
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timhj said 3:24AM on 4-23-2007
haven't seen or used pligg,.. but I've just had a look at the site and correct me if I'm wrong, clicking the title link, on the individual pligg display page doesn't shoot you off to the site where the t-shirt is for sale...
clicking on the image brings a lightbox enlarged image up though there's no way to go and find a price etc from the originating site.
either it's a not very functional system, or not very usable. love the idea, hope all the bugs get ironed out.
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timhj said 3:26AM on 4-23-2007
I just found the link, surely, it should be the big title on the page, not the tiny grey subtext... the biggest link on the page is to the page itself,.. that just seems silly.
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Jimmy Sailo said 7:22AM on 4-25-2007
Been using Pligg for quite a while now. They seem to be using the latest build, but not the latest, which has a "bury" option. Nonetheless, another cool implementation of pligg.
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Karl long said 8:14PM on 4-25-2007
Ok, I've fixed the title link issue, now if you're looking at the actual story page the main link goes to the external site.
Thanks,
Karl
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