| Website | aggregame.com |
| Category | Games, Video and Entertainment |
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| Founded | 9/08 |
| Description | Social media for Gamers |
Aggregame.com provides gamers and publishers a unique set of tools which make up a social media platform geared specifically towards video games.
Using familiar technologies, Aggregame.com makes the submission and discovery of news / meida extremely simple. Moreover, it makes the entire process FUN and competitive, with its unique competition cycle. Content submitted to Aggregame is entered into an “Upcoming” queue, where it waits to enter a “Match” with the other relevant content in its category. The stories with the most number of votes in a specific time window advance to the “Leaderboard”, and the rest get indexed under the “Owned” list.
No obscure algorithms, no scaling popularity rating for users - just straight-up, in-your-face competition decides the relevance of any given article, video, or screenshot submitted.
Aside from your typical accoutrement (such as threaded commenting, comment ratings, and forums) Aggregame.com also provides every submitted article a live chat room. Using similar (but proprietary) technology as Jabber, Aggregame allows for web-based chat with no plugins needed. Any Javascript-enabled browser will be able to participate in real-time chat; and not that lame PHP “polling” shoutcast crap either… Now, rather than just commenting on the topic-of-the-hour, you can discuss it in realtime with all the other gamers interested.
What about the publishers? Aggregame’s widgets make it easy for any blogger or site owner to extend her reach to an even broader demographic. Simple copy-paste customizable Javascripts is all it takes to provide your readers the ability to submit to Aggregame straight from your site!
Oh no Crunchies - there’s more! Aggregame also competes with popular sites like GameTab.com by providing a sleek, clean, up-to-the-minute aggregate feed of all the news from the most popular publishers on the ‘Net. Why go to 8 different sites, when you can get it all on one page? Or take it a step further - find the news on Aggregame, and submit it straight from the Aggregate feed with two clicks of the mouse.
Earlier this years, Aggregame launched “AG Private Rooms” - a way for users to create their own chat rooms with little effort. They are given a unique URL they can send to friends or tweet out to Twitter followers which brings them straight to their real-time web-based chat room, no plugins needed. Furthermore, they can embed various Flash objects into this private chat room to accompany whatever their Chat topic may be.
Also, presently in Private BETA, is AggreTweet, a Twitter app powered by Aggregame which captures all the gaming buzz / conversations as they happen on Twitter. All feeds are real-time updates based off the Twitter Search API, and all the hottest games are tracked. Powerful graphs and trending charts are then generated based entirely off Twitter traffic, which shows which games are leading others in terms of # of tweets. Publishers & gaming enthusiasts alike can use these metrics for business or fun.
What’s the end goal here? Aggregame becomes the centralized hub for all things gaming. This social media platform will ultimately be just one small branch of the ultimate Aggregame vision - but that’s not for some years to come.
With Video Games as the last big Entertainment industry yet to mature, there is a ton of growth potential to capitalize on. At Aggregame, we believe we have the business plan to service the growing social requirements of this market the best.
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