SportsFilter: Sports Community Weblog

Saturday, March 03, 2007

FanNation | The Republic of Sport It was bound to happen. A fully-featured social networking site for Sport Fans, includes, ability to track community events on a regional basis, hot topic tracking, blogging capability, player tracking, and ability to gather articles and stories from favorite news sources. Overall, a nice set of functionality, even if at launch, it is only focused on US Sports. Our beloved SpoFi probably doesn't have much to worry about until this site builds a following, but it does seem to have something new to offer sports fanatics. [also posted to MeFi]

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This thing is pretty nice. I'm signed up just for the ability to target a town and find out a few of the top stories in it. Of course, I could have done that just as easily through Google, but I'm a lazy fuck.

Where's the Web 2.0 checklist? I think this site used it as a template.

That's pretty funny, mbd1, but exactly right. It seems like they tried to get ALL the functionality that's hip these days and stuff it in the same place. It has potential, but I think it's too narrow. They should really add spaces for F1, NASCAR, EPL and such if they want to make a bigger splash.

Web 2.0 -> The search for venture capital 2.0 -> Dot Com bubble 2.0 -> Dot Com collapse 2.0.

The whole thing gives me a headache.

I agree with justgary, but I join nearly everything just to protect my username :) I also set up a SportsFilter group just to protect that too. hehehe. password: spofi

I joined, but as it is totally focused on the US I doubt I'll ever use it. I also joined the SpoFi group, just 'cause :)

Focused on US sports? It's focused on the few most popular US sports, and once again, it pisses me off to no end that yet another website, newspaper, magazine etc. refers to "NCAA Basketball" when they're only talking about the men's game. And take a look at the comments, while you're at it. The site owners may have (on some limited level) meant this to be "social networking for sports fans", but the knuckledraggers are already firmly established. Social networking for knuckledraggers -- what a joke.

Seems like there's just TOO MUCH unfocused stuff. I'd love it if they'd just ask me -- before ever loading a page -- hey, which sports are you into? and which teams in those sports? Then they'd do their magic and the only things I'd see are items/people/posts/stuff relevant to my beloved Oakland A's and Buffalo Sabres. Cause I'm certainly not going to do the work to get that far, so back to RSS we go.

After reading about it here I signed up so I could play around with it. I am getting a kick out of it today but I see a high likelihood that I will forget about its existance in a week.

The Throwdown feature is destined to end well.

I don't see what you mean: Mr. Masturbation is 4-0-2. The future of human discourse is nuanced debate like this.

I love this throwdown feature. A chance to blast Brady Quinn is one I will not pass up.

The best thing about that Throwdown ma is that Jack is, appropriately, debating with himself.

Just had a browse round the site (despite the top warning me that I had Javascript disabled and would be unable to use the site) and dear god, it's a wasteland. It's what I imagine hell must be like, only the people are less interesting.

Sigh. This is where Web 2.0 jumps the shark. SpoFi will be here long after Web whatever-point-oh (and associated parasitic sites) have come and gone.

Jack is, appropriately, debating with himself. It's what I imagine hell must be like, only the people are less interesting. Makes me feel a bit better about the future of humanity.

It's what I imagine hell must be like, only the people are less interesting. well, hell is other people.

Every obnoxious sports debate seems to be well represented. It's like Jim Rome as a website.

Every obnoxious sports debate seems to be well represented. It's like Jim Rome as a website. And from that perspective, it differs from SpoFi how? Funny, I just came across this site when I was doing some reseach on another matter, and thought to see what the experts thought, so I posted it here. Some great feedback here, but I never imagined such anger about it. Weird.

An...ger? Where? I see a reasonable concept, but the sort of people who comment on YouTube videos have already moved in and, as a result, features like the Throwdown look like a clusterfuck of enormous proportions. Still, I have the thing bookmarked and will drop by every few days to click on the Miami pin, but I doubt I'll go further in than that, in case one of them follows me home.

I expect psmealy is probably talking about me, since I said, "...once again, it pisses me off to no end that yet another website, newspaper, magazine etc. refers to "NCAA Basketball" when they're only talking about the men's game." I don't think anyone else said anything that could be construed as "anger". psmealy, you may not have anticipated it, but now that it's been explained to you after the fact, if you still can't imagine why there are off-pissing aspects to the site and want to label it as "weird" that someone would find it so, I'm not sure what more I can say to explain it.

Ah. You ball of hate, you.

Where's the dating forum? "Hi SWM seeks SF for watching hockey, baseball and basketball - and FOOTBALL!! Must enjoy jersey fashion, chicken wings and long walks around the concourse. If you too, think Tom Brady is a homo, you may be the one for me. No Yankee fans, please." This thing is bound to be a bastion of considered thought and polite discourse. Also - these things that try to be everything to everyone, usually end up being nothing to anyone. Which is my way of saying I hate it.

No Yankee fans, please. ah, such is life.

Well, I'm not actually suggesting that would be my profile - just an average profile. For the record, I think Tom Brady is an attractive, successful man.

Where's the dating forum? Uhhhh...wait a sec...is this a potential revenue stream for SpoFi??? I want to be on the Profile Design Committee. And I want a bigger-than-average cut for having this brilliant idea that will make us all rich.

Funny, I just came across this site when I was doing some reseach on another matter, and thought to see what the experts thought, so I posted it here. Some great feedback here, but I never imagined such anger about it. Weird. posted by psmealey I don't hate it, and it'll probably sell for millions one day. It's just not my cup of tea. And with the amount of people they're going to attract, I have no doubt the discussion will be much more romish than sportsfilter.

I wish somebody would respond to my throwdown challenge. It has been there since Sunday. *sigh*

I wish somebody would respond to my throwdown challenge. It has been there since Sunday. *sigh* Your throwdown challenge was a little too elevated for that crowd, Yang, but I took care of it for you.

I thought about that after I posted. I figured I should have come off a little less strong and then laid it all out there once I had drawn somebody in. A little Venus Fly Trap mentality I suppose.

A little Venus Fly Trap mentality I suppose. i always preferred the Dr. Johnny Fever approach myself.

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