The success of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook has spurred a landslide of niche social network development throughout the online world. Many categories of interests, such as dogs and shoes and music, have seen their own online networking platform come to life through the power of Web 2.0 technologies. Now it’s time for video games .
Today, GarageGames has released, to the world, the new video game social networking site, Great Games Experiment (http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com). This site boasts a current user base approaching tens of thousands and tons of games.
The idea of a social networking site for video games is by no means revolutionary; however, the adjoining of all video games (both indie and mainstream) in one central location, with a democracy of users has never before been implemented. This is more than database of video games. On GreatGamesExperiment.com, a user can rate, review, play, download, search for, browse for, [keep inserting verbs here] any type of video game imaginable. Users can also interact with each other on a multitude of levels. Create your own internal network within the walls of GreatGamesExperiment.com by making friends with, tagging, kudo-ing, commenting on other users throughout the site. Users can also band together to form groups.
The main objectives of the site are as follows:
Provide to game fans and developers an opportunity to share and promote their own games!
Help gamers and developers network with each other!
Help people discover new games! Many of which they may have never heard!
Make it easy to download and play games in one place.
Also, check out the cool badges you can get on the site and post around the web:
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“The NHL has a substantial presence on YouTube. However, they told one person who was legally embedding these videos on his site to skate to the penalty box.”
According to ESPN.com, Tiger’s pitcher Joel Zumaya was suffering injuries in his right wrist, not related to pitching but rather his Guitar Hero addiction
I’ve been quite a fan of the Derek Trucks for a while. For those of you who don’t know who Derek Trucks is, he was the second generation lead guitar player for the Allman Brothers Band. Today I’ve been rockin’ out to some live recordings of the Derek Trucks Band that I have on tap.
Here is a great YouTube clip of him jammin’ with the Allman Bros. This, my friends, is what a Gibson SG was made to sound like…
On Christmas-eve-eve, somebody decided to attempt to steal my car (or maybe my insanely fashionable sunglasses from Kohl’s out of my car). So anyways, I got to wake up to my driver-side window being smashed. Keep in mind this car is only six months old so I was pretty unhappy with having to drop a bunch of cash to have a new window put in it. Luckily the Saturn dealership was open that day and did a great job of detailing my interior to rid my car of all evidence of the disaster. However, I had to go an entire week without a car. Things are back to normal now but here are some photos commemorating the incident.
I’ve been looking into the wonderful world of Google Maps API recently. In my search to find some of the cool mashups that people are creating with the awesome service I ran across this link, which helps you easily find satellite images of some of the coolest spectacles on Earth from space. My personal favorite is The Colosseum under the Medieval Wonders category! Check it out!
