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Introduction

Jungle Dragon™ is a (wildlife) photo sharing site with next-generation social networking features. Jungle Dragon™ has the photo sharing features of sites like Flickr, the rating features of sites like Digg, the collaborative knowledge management features of Wikipedia, and the credit/level system of games like World of Warcraft. Jungle Dragon™ takes the concept of user-generated concept to a whole new level, unlike anything you have ever seen before.

Through the unique KarmaEngine™, users are rewarded for their actions, be it via uploading an image or getting votes from other users. There are many ways to earn karma credits. As users increase their credits, they increase in level. Levels provide a means of user recognition, increase the influence of votes and unlock power features.

And that's not it. The karma credits earned with the KarmaEngine™ can be used to acquire items. Items are like digital playing cards, similar to games like Magic: The Gathering. Each "card" represents one of nature's organisms with an associated cost. Users are encouraged to collect as many items as possible and can even trade them with other users.

The unique reward systems of Jungle Dragon™ encourage users to participate by means of uploading and rating content.

What's the point?

The primary goal of Jungle Dragon™ is to become one of the largest wildlife image repositories out there, for all to enjoy freely. The KarmaEngine™ and rating systems are designed to steer the quantity and quality of the imagery. By being one of the largest wildlife image repositories, Jungle Dragon™ wants to create awareness and be an educational source concerning the beauty of Mother Nature. In this process, Jungle Dragon wants to provide users a rich, fun experience found in no other web application.

In summary, Jungle Dragon™ is all about building a community-driven wildlife directory whilst having fun!

Photo sharing

After registration, users are encouraged to upload images. Upon uploading, users can pick from one of the image ownership models (donate image to Jungle Dragon™, co-ownership, or self-ownership). Credits will be rewarded based upon this choice. This way, users have full control over what happens to their images. After uploading, the image will automatically be stored in a variety of formats. From this point on, (other) users can find the image in many ways (by popularity, category, tag, location, from the user's profile, etc).

Rating

The Jungle Dragon™ rating system is unique. It allows users to rate not only images, but also comments, groups, articles, and even other users. Furthermore, where most social rating applications implement a binary approach (digg, bury), Jungle Dragon™ presents a leveled rating system that is associated with nature's food chain. For example, a poor image may be rated as "bacteria", where a brilliant image is rated as "King of the Jungle".

Commenting

The Jungle Dragon™ comment system allows users to post comments on pretty much anything: images, articles, groups, and other users. Comments can be nested and rated by other users.

Social networking

Jungle Dragon™ provides a wide range of social networking features:

  • Users can create groups where they can collaborate on a particular topic. This collaboration includes photo sharing, a discussion forum, and more. Group owners are in control of the members and the content in the group.
  • The comment system allows users to comment on anything: images, articles, groups, and other users.
  • The rating system allows users to rate anything: images, articles, groups and other users.
  • Users are able to trade items acquired by their karma credits with other users
  • Users are able to mark other users as friends and track their friends' activity

Knowledge management

As mentioned before, one of the goals of Jungle Dragon™ is to provide a wildlife directory. This is accomplished by the article system. In essence, wildlife images are linked to an article. One article represents one of nature's organisms. Whilst users cannot create articles, they are able to edit them, Wiki-style. By using the "wisdom of the crowds", the knowledge concerning an organism is enriched over time. This way the directory will offer a large set of nature's organisms, along with detailed information and stunning images.

Technology

  • The LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) will be used to build and run the site.
  • The Code Igniter framework will be used to develop the application
  • Various other open source components may be used

Innovation

What makes Jungle Dragon™ so innovative? It's in the sum of its parts:

  • Content sharing, rating, commenting, groups, friends, knowledge management, collecting and leveling all in one streamlined solution
  • The unique KarmaEngine™ that rewards users for their actions
  • Multi-level rating according to the levels in the food chain
  • The item inventory and trading system

Status and support

Project Jungle Dragon is currently in an early development phase. In the meanwhile, you can track the news below or subscribe here to stay up-to-date. If you want to support this project, please visit the donations page for an overview of donations. From there you can also donate, and get services in return.

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