It’s clear with that with the news that Yahoo! and CBS Sportsline are creating open networks allowing developers to create applications that the online sports and fantasy sports world is about to change. A project ahead of the curve appears to be SCORE OS - Fantasy Sports Management System. His team’s goal is to […]

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Stories we’re following for you on this Wednesday, April 16, 2008:

Fantasy Sports vs. Social Media - An interesting blog post, but one can make the argument that fantasy sports at its heart is social media given its’ good fit with Web 2.0 technologies already available.

Know the Fantasy Sports Business like an old pro - a […]

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In a testament to the growing popularity and staying power of sports social networks, YardBarker.com today received $6 million in its second round of funding, according to TechCrunch. For the uninitiated, Yardbarker is an online sports community where users can upload links (like Digg) and videos and fans can read blogs written by athletes (Donovan […]

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Here are some news stories of interest for today, March 18th:

Edmunds.com introduces Fantasy Car Stock Exchange - A new take on fantasy racing - where consumers invest virtually in the sales performance of their favorite vehicles.

Rotoresume – Classifieds for fantasy sports leagues (via Rotonation) - now you won’t have to worry about finding a fantasy […]

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Fantasy sports is so big these days even large, popular newspapers like the New York Times are covering them. This week, the New York Times NFL blog, The Fifth Down(name) allowed fantasy football blogger Sara Holladay (aka Fantasy Football Librarian) some shine on their site. And yes, Ms. Holladay is actually a university librarian who […]

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Officially joining the increasingly crowded field of sites that brand themselves as sports social networks is Bleacher Report, which allows fans to write sports stories, critique others’ writings, and form a community around aspiring sports writers and their content. Their press release states the following about how the site works:
Bleacher Report removes the largest barriers […]

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Your friends here at FantasySports20.com weren’t able to make the FSTA Winter Conference that took place in Denver this past week, but thanks to Rotonation.com, we can come to some conclusions from the conference. I’ll list some of the highlights and award winners from this past week. Several things we can take from the conference […]

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A recent Businessweek article states that social networks like MySpace and Facebook are seeing users spend less time on their sites due to the increase in advertising on those social networks:
The MySpace generation may be getting annoyed with ads and a bit bored with profile pages. The average amount of time each user spends on […]

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As of May 21, 2007, Greg Oden officially became a blogger on Yardbarker.com. Yardbarker is a sports version of Digg.com that has been around for more than a year now. Other athletes who blog on Yardbarker are:

Chris Henry (Rookie RB on Titans)
Cletis Gordon (CB for Chargers)
Ikaika Alama-Francis (Rooke DE on Lions)
John Lackey (Pitcher […]

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