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Boonty Announces Cafe.com, the First Social Casual Game Platform Dedicated to Free-to-Play Casual Games.


Cafe.com Targets the Everyday Social Casual Gamer Casual gamer is a term used to describe a type of video game player whose time or interest in playing games is limited compared with a hardcore gamer. They can be found playing games across all genres and of varying levels of complexity and difficulty.  - Including Males and Females of All Ages - with Free Games This article is about Free games. For other uses, see Free games (disambiguation).
Free games are video games which are free software and contain exclusively free content. Because of this they are freely distributable and often cross-platform compatible.
 and Free Personalized Avatars Designed for Social Interaction

Cafe.com's Gold Coin Gold coins are one of the oldest forms of money. The first gold coins in history were coined by the Lydian king Croesus in about 560 BC, not long after the first silver coins were minted by king Pheidon of Argos in about 700 BC.  Microtransaction Economy Provides for Community and Socialization socialization /so·cial·iza·tion/ (so?shal-i-za´shun) the process by which society integrates the individual and the individual learns to behave in socially acceptable ways.

so·cial·i·za·tion
n.
 Features, Game Enhancements, Marketing Opportunities, and the Best Tools to Monetize Social Networks

"In the Offline World, Everyone is a Social Casual Gamer and We Are Bringing Them Online," Says CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  

NEW YORK New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 -- Boonty (www.boonty.net), one of the world's largest platforms for online casual games, announced today the launch of the beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions.  of Cafe.com, the first gaming platform developed exclusively for social casual games.

Cafe.com is unique in its treatment of each game as a social opportunity. The site's library is comprised of high-quality casual games, all specifically designed to feature maximum community functionality. With free membership, players can enjoy private and public game rooms, multi-player chat, and sophisticated personalization capabilities such as avatar creation and item-level purchases for game play enhancement.

"In the offline world, everyone is a social casual gamer. Cafe.com brings every person's desire to play a game with friends to the online world," commented founder and President Mathieu Nouzareth. "We've seen online casual gaming explode into a billion-dollar industry, enabling Boonty to achieve phenomenal growth and success. We are tremendously excited about the opportunities presented by incorporating the burgeoning areas of social networking See social networking site.

social networking - social network
 and microtransactions, and we are committed to creating the most innovative gaming solutions available, exceeding the demands of gamers around the world."

Cafe.com membership is free-of-charge, as is unrestricted play of the retail-quality games. To compliment revenue from microtransactions, the free-play approach will be supported by the addition of contextual advertising Contextual advertising is the term applied to advertisements appearing on websites or other media, such as content displayed in mobile phones, where the advertisements are selected and served by automated systems based on the content displayed by the user.  and sponsored game wrappers that reach players outside of game play as well as sponsored game and avatar items.

Nouzareth adds, "Brand owners, marketers, and advertisers have all recognized the enormous potential existing in gaming, but have yet to fully understand how to successfully work with the medium. At Cafe.com, we understand the gaming community, and we know how to implement solutions that will attract positive, lasting attention to the brand."

For more information or to start playing the beta version for free, visit www.cafe.com http://www.cafe.com.

About Boonty

Boonty is one of the largest casual games platforms in the world, operating in more than 25 countries. Since its launch in 2001, the company's customized end-to-end solutions have been implemented by major publishers, Internet portals, ISPs, mobile phone operators, advertisers, Internet communities, and PC manufacturers globally. Boonty has offices in New York, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, and Beijing.
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