24 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, ESPN, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, News, press releases
STATS, Inc. expands to the Middle East - This certainly is an expansion by the company in the direction of international sports, including F1 and cricket.
The College Fantasy Editor for Athlon Sports Talks College Fantasy Football - Want to know the distinctions between NFL and College fantasy? Find out here.
2008 Fantasy Football Season Kicks Off […]
23 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, ESPN, Fantasy Sports, News, Olympics, Social Media, Technology, press releases
Some stories we’re following closely for you on Wednesday, July 23, 2008:
Local sports sites can capitalize if they focus on SEO, per study - Among other findings is that ESPN has one of the 10 most popular video servers on the web.
Sun Microsystems to Provide Technology Platform for NBC’s Online Coverage of the Beijing Olympic […]
21 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, News, Social Media, Technology, Video Games, Videos
Maximum Fantasy Sports now open - Just another place to consider playing this upcoming fantasy football season.
JupiterResearch Finds Serious Sports Fans Tend to be Avid Consumers of Online Video - some interesting research data here, including the finding that serious sports fans comprise 19 percent of online users.
Nintendo to add new MotionPlus technology to existing […]
18 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Athletes, Business, EA, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Football, News, Social Media, Technology, Video Games
NBC Sports offers $100,000 with its National Fantasy Football Championship - It’s quite telling when a major network is backing a fantasy football championship - the draft is August 30th.
L.T. campaigns to be fantasy No. 1 - Gotta love it, if athletes are pimping themselves in fantasy leagues, that shows how fantasy has become reality.
Videogames […]
17 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Athletes, Business, News, Social Media, Technology, press releases
Future US buys news aggregator sites Ballhype and Showhype to beef up online portfolio - $3 million for the two sites - not bad at all and it shows that digg-clones for niche markets are viable.
UFC Former Heavyweight Champ Andrei “The Pit Bull” Arlovski Launches a Social Network - You can check out the former […]
16 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, EA, Fantasy Football, Fantasy Sports, Madden, News, Technology, Video Games, Virtual Sports, press releases
EA Sports Releases Fantasy Football Live Draft Tracker - A few days early too! But still, the main detractor is that leagues cannot do their draft online using their Xbox360.
FantasyFootballNerd.com Opens Site to Developers - We mentioned their comparison site last week, which uses a meta-search engine. Now, they are announcing the release of a […]
14 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Athletes, Business, FSTA, Fantasy Sports, News, Olympics, Social Media, Technology, Virtual Sports, fantasy soccer
A Meeting of Fantasy’s Sharpest Minds - A review of the FSTA conference that occurred last week.
Atomic Moguls announces dozens of new fantasy games to be released in coming sports seasons - Lots of new games planned from this company, including college football, and English soccer.
Michael Phelps’ wave takes swimming to new heights - It’s […]
11 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Baseball, Business, Fantasy Sports, MLB, News, Technology, Video Games, Virtual Sports
As we previewed yesterday, Challenge Games has released a new online game that combines virtual baseball trading cards with a fantasy game. Challenge Games is not new to the online gaming field, they created a successful online multiplayer game called Duels. The difference with their games versus some of the more massive online games requiring […]
10 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, FSTA, Fantasy Sports, Marketing, Media, News, Opensports, Social Media, Technology, Yahoo!, press releases
Announcing Baseball Boss - Game Combines Trading Cards with Fantasy Sports - Interesting concept, we’ll review the site in a separate full post shortly.
Fantasy Sports Industry Grows to a $800 Million Industry With 29.9 Million Players - We previewed this story for you on Tuesday, but here is the press release. Impressive growth indeed.
Yahoo Opens […]
09 Jul
Posted by Jim Nguyen as Business, Fantasy Football, News, Olympics, Soccer, Technology
FantasyFootballNerd.com Compares Multiple Sites for Fantasy Football Fans - This site let’s you compares fantasy football sites using a meta-search engine.
Technology provides the winning edge in Olympic sports - from swimming to basketball, it’s all about the technology that will be on display in Beijing.
Chelsea FC steps up social focus online - One of the […]