Tcritic launches TDigger

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Tcritic launches TDigger

by David Chartier Apr 21st 2007

What's better than a blog dedicated entirely to cool t-shirts? Why, a blog dedicated entirely to cool t-shirts that just launched a t-shirt digging site! Tcritic is a slick blog obsessed with t-shirts of all kinds; the more quirky or clever a shirt is, you can be sure Tcritic will find and blog it. But how can we tell which shirts are truly the best? Until now, we've been lost in an ocean of shirts, forced to fend for ourselves in determining which ones to buy and which to laugh at (and not in the good way) when you see them in public.

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.

Tags: apparel, clothing, digg, digging, t-shirts, tcritic, tdigger, tshirts, vote, voting

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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!

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.

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.

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.

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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