TIOTI Feature - Badges
TIOTI had the vague notion of TV show badges pencilled in before it even had a site even sketched out, I originally wrote them up on the blog on October 14 2005 - yikes! Vague is the word as they didn't make it into the beta release at all and the thinking around them didn't get fleshed out until my time in Simferopol and had to decide how, what and where they worked.
And now? We're very proud to show you our badges in their glory. Expanded to three types of badge, we let you pick a show related badge (which links to the TIOTI show page logically) with additional images coming from the show photogallery. We've also got TIOTI related badges which can be assigned from groups you belong to, a set of top tags (like "sci-fi" or "BBC") or other TIOTI things like your avatar, some "I heart TIOTI" badges and more. There's a third category, where you can create a link badge that will link to your Myspace, Flickr or Bebo page (amongst many others) to tie up your social networks a bit.
Of course it's fun to have your badges on TIOTI, but much more interesting to take them away as a widget and paste them on your blog, your Myspace page, or wherever embed codes are allowed. These are mine...
Like most of TIOTI, we'll be looking at extending the functionality of badges in the future so feel free to leave comments and suggestions for things you might like to see.
