KickApps has forged a partnership with Infinity Pro Sports to bring social media and online video experiences to professional and college team and league websites. The first joint customer is the legendary basketball team Harlem Globetrotters.

Social media offers sports teams and leagues a unique opportunity to engage fans around without the geographical boundaries. Using the KickApps Social Media Platform, Infinity Pro Sports will be able to easily create and manage branded social networks for their clients that feature photo and video uploading and sharing, blogging and discussion forums. Through this, teams and league can deliver an immersive online environment where fans can meet other fans and collectively share their passion for their favorite teams, and create a new marketing and revenue channel for ticket and merchandise sales.

The KickApps Social Media Platform currently powers social media websites for many of the world’s largest professional and amateur sports teams and leagues, including the Phoenix Suns’ PlanetOrange.net, New Orleans Hornets, New York Knicks, Phoenix Mercury, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks and New York Rangers.

Originally posted on February 13, 2009 @ 11:43 am

RushmoreDrive.com, a search engine for the Black community and TheLoop21.com, a web site that provides in-depth analysis of economics and politics, have joined together to bring news and commentary from a Black perspective to their users.

RushmoreDrive is a first-of-its-kind search engine for the Black community that delivers a blend of mainstream search results plus a layer of more relevant search results influenced by the Black community. It has developed several community and content partnerships in order to better serve its growing population of users known as RushmoreDrivers. While search is RushmoreDrive.com’s core offering, RushmoreDrivers also get news, Black opinions and an opportunity to search for jobs with companies that value diversity, all at the same web destination.

TheLoop21.com is expected to bring a unique perspective to ongoing news that is important to the Black community. L

Originally posted on February 10, 2009 @ 7:00 am

Special Olympics and KickApps announced the launch of a new online Fan Community.

Built on the KickApps platform, the online Fan Community connects people who are passionate about building a more accepting and inclusive world and enables them to share their stories and celebrate the spirit of the Special Olympics.

The Fan Community was designed by Perfect Sense Digital and built by the KickApps Client Solutions team. The website features a social network where members can create an online profile about themselves, friend other members of the community, upload blogs, photos and videos, engage in conversations with other members on message boards, and comment, rate and tag content that has been created and uploaded by other members. Additionally, members can easily share community content, and spread awareness, with family and friends on any website, major social networks and blogs.

Originally posted on February 4, 2009 @ 11:45 am