With the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Basketball Championships bringing an end to the College Basketball season over the next two days, as well as the various Opening Day festivities that will kick off the 2007 Baseball Season throughout the week, it seems only appropriate to highlight the latest in a variety of Sporting social networking websites. Ballhype.com recent emerged from private beta and seems to have the potential to outshine like communities such as Fannation.com or Takkle.com. Functioning similar to Digg.com and other such news submission sites, what I really like about Ballhype.com is the fact that it breaks down popular news stories into specific categories. For example, if you wanted to read the hottest stories related to last night’s Mavs vs. Suns NBA game, you could find them conveniently organized in one nice little section. The site also features a scoreboard of current games, which while it isn’t anything revolutionary, does provide the necessary info that you would need from such a feature. Finally, Ballhype allows users to join together and communicate in groups devoted to their favorite cities, regions, sports and teams (as an ex-DC resident, I’m a personal fan of the Bullets Forever group, good times).
What are your thoughts on BallHype? And who do you have in the Championship games? Gators/Buckeyes? Vols/Scarlet Knights?...Should be fun!!
2 comments:
Thanks for the review! Agree that the tags and categories are key for getting to the stories that people actually care about quickly. We’re looking forward to seeing how the community stuff takes off with more users on the site.
-JG
P.S. Buckeyes!
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