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Fantasy Sports 2.0

Web 2.0 + Fantasy Sports = Putting the ‘Fan’ back into Fantasy Sports.

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 […]

Check out these stories for the top of your week:

Now that Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Yahoo! is over, what next? - Lots of things, but it will be interesting to see how the Yahoo! Open platform is unveiled.

Ibeatyou is off to the races and on to the social networks - The competition-based site has announced […]

Here are some interesting stories for today:

Watercooler’s SN Apps for Fans Backed by $4M - Connecting fan communities through your favorite social networks.

Yahoo Goes Full Steam Ahead With ‘open’ Strategy - Now that their “Open Strategy” has been announced, Yahoo! is moving quickly to establish it.

U.S. sports dispute “white space” airwaves plan - Several major […]

Here are stories of interest for today, April 30, 2008:

Let Em Play - ESPN The Magazine’s cover story on aspiring athletes who have prosthetic limbs.

Is Yahoo`s Social Platform Too Little, Too Late? - A different perspective on a story we’ve been covering here at Fantasy Sports 2.0; this story questions the timing of the move […]

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 […]

Last week, there were a few big announcements that will have a significant impact on the fantasy sports industry.  At the Web 2.0 Expo, Yahoo’s CTO announced the Yahoo Application Platform which will allow developers to tap into their social graph, build applications around them, and distribute through Yahoo’s properties.  In case you missed it, […]