http://fantasysports20.com Web 2.0 + Fantasy Sports = Putting the 'Fan' back into Fantasy Sports. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:21:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/24/link-roundup-for-thursday-july-24th/ 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 ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/23/research-findings-seo-key-for-local-sports-sites-and-more/ Some of the stories we're following for you on Tuesday, July 22, 2008: Ranking the best fantasy football magazines - a review of the best ones for your dollar now that training camps are about to begin. The Fantasy Football Times.com Elects its Members as Experts - What happens when you combine ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/22/the-best-fantasy-football-magazines-and-more/ 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 ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/21/link-roundup-for-july-21-2008/ 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 ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/18/link-roundup-for-july-18-2008/ 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 ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/17/link-roundup-for-july-17-2008/ 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 ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/16/link-roundup-for-july-16-2008/ 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 ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/14/link-roundup-for-july-14-2008/ 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 ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/11/site-review-trading-cards-meets-fantasy-sports-at-baseball-boss/ 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 ... http://fantasysports20.com/2008/07/10/link-roundup-for-july-10-2008/