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YouCastr launches live sports broadcasting service

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youcastr.pngYouCastr launched its interactive live sports broadcasting service that allows anyone, anywhere to broadcast live sports commentary, creating more entertaining, interactive, and personal experiences for fans.

With YouCastr, anyone can become a sports broadcaster. On the simple, yet powerful website, users can easily broadcast live commentary on sporting events and create shows about their favorite local, high-school, college and pro teams. Unlike traditional radio and Internet streaming, YouCastr allows broadcasters and listeners to interact live while simultaneously watching or listening to sporting events. Whether doing play-by-play for the local high-school basketball team, providing additional commentary for college or pro games, or discussing the most recent sports headlines, YouCastr has created a unique, globally scalable platform that has begun attracting sports fans around the world.

Originally posted on February 20, 2008 @ 10:51 am

GyPSii, Shanghai Rannuo, China Unicom to launch mobile-location services for 2008 Olympic Games

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GyPSii has partnered with Shanghai Rannuo and China Unicom to launch its GyPSii service during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.

The GyPSii service combines social networking, mobile, location and web 2.0 technologies to offer China Unicom users a seamless mobile lifestyle experience. It will allow users to create pictures, video and blogs centered on all things Olympic while using their existing camera phone. GyPSii users can capture their special moments during the Olympic games, upload the content to their personal space and share it with friends, family and communities. The users can also search other GyPSii User Generated Content (UGC), people and points of interest and get maps and directions to their location – all from their mobile phone.

The GyPSii service will be available to Unicom users in March 2008 at yypsii.com.cn.

Originally posted on February 20, 2008 @ 10:36 am

Community-driven online sports network Bleacher Report launches

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Following months of beta testing, Bleacher Report formally launched its community-driven online sports network, providing all sports fans one place to create, critique and consume compelling coverage on their favorite college and professional teams. Bleacher Report’s open, collaborative platform features a peer-editing system that helps ensure high quality fan-generated coverage on the site. While in beta, the site grew to more than 400,000 monthly unique visitors and 2,000 original sports editorials published per month– drastically outpacing similar outlets in both web and print media. In addition, Bleacher Report announced it has raised a Series A round of funding led by Hillsven Capital, a partnership of Bobby Lent and Boris Putanec, former co-founders of Ariba Inc., along with other investors.

Bleacher Report was founded by Dave Finocchio, Alexander Freund, Bryan Goldberg, and Dave Nemetz, four lifelong sports fans from Silicon Valley. The group shared a belief that mainstream sports media didn’t offer the range or depth of coverage to satisfy diehards, and that some of the most insightful analysis comes from the fans who know their teams best. With Bleacher Report, they created a platform to empower all fans to become fan-journalists, producing high-quality content and sharing it with a built-in readership of hundreds of thousands.

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Originally posted on February 19, 2008 @ 11:43 am

Ticketmaster and MLB extends multi-year ticketing partnership

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Ticketmaster MLB Advanced Media LP (MLBAM), the interactive media and internet company of Major League Baseball (MLB), announced the extension of their existing multi-year ticketing services contract. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

The new agreement provides Ticketmaster with the continued right to sell tickets over the internet on behalf of individual MLB teams for which Ticketmaster provides exclusive offline primary ticketing services. Baseball fans continue to display an unprecedented demand for purchasing tickets online as a record 27 million were sold in 2007, a 17 percent increase from the previous mark set in 2006.

Originally posted on February 14, 2008 @ 10:24 am