I came across SportsMates (via Can Karasikli). I had written about sports social networking before. I continue to think that, like music (think MySpace’s early days), sports fandom is another universal bonding agent. SportMates seems to follow the blogging-community-as-the-network model.
It looks like Joga has failed to maintain traction after the world cup. Alexa reports that NBX is ahead of SportsMates. I remain curious to see how this will play out.
While I’m a big fan of the “blogs are the network” model, I wonder how much success SportMates will have vs. fantasy sports leagues and prediction markets like PicksPal (see TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/19/pickspal-could-disrupt-sports-betting-markets/)
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