You can use Afrigator to index your blog, podcast, videocast or news site (i.e. any site that publishes an RSS feed) and market it to the rest of Africa and the world. You can also use it to discover new sites in the Afrosphere.

Afrigator attempts to use social media tools and technologies to showcase the best digital content that the African continent has to offer, ranging from syndicated news feeds to blog posts, podcasts, videos and images. We invite citizen publishers with African content (or based on the African continent) to submit their sites and then we send clicks back to them. We also scan the Web for African-related tags and aggregate that content in the site.

Content is divided by country channels, by category (we’ve developed an organic categorisation algorithm that sorts content into single or multiple categories by scanning it as it’s pulled into the site) and finally by content type. One would be able to filter audio content of a business theme originating from Nigeria, as an example. Our goal is to include geotagging to drill down search possibilities even further and improve our data on where our content is coming from.

We built the platform from scratch and in September 2008 MIH Print Africa (Pty) Ltd, a division of Naspers Limited, acquired a stake in Afrigator.

Our dream is that Afrigator will evolve into the first choice destination for anyone wanting to get a taste of the social vibe on the African continent at any given point. We’d also like to use the site to build useful data around social media users and producers in Africa.

Afrigator has already enjoyed a fair amount of success with a steady 25% month-on-month growth rate and the wonderful accolade of having being listed as #20 of 31 “top non-US startups to watch worldwide” by Business 2.0 (money.cnn.com).

In December 2008 Afrigator was voted as one of the Top 10 International Products for 2008 and received an honourable mention in the Top 10 RSS and Syndication Products of 2008 by ReadWriteWeb and both these accolades appeared in the New York Times Technology section as well.

We’ve also featured on ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, Go2Web20, KillerStartups.com and received press coverage in the Financial Mail, FinWeek, The Times, Intelligence Magazine and Bizcommunity to name but a few.

Click here to visit Afrigator.com or if you’d like to read the Afrigator Blog then click here.