Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Fantasy Football Sites Ready for Some Football

The Olympics are more than just an international sporting event. They are also the prime time for companies to launch a product -- and product -- because somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion people are watching. That's a ton of eyeballs.

CBS is hoping to capitalize on sports-mania by announcing its upcoming mobile website for fantasy footballers (that's American football for those of you outside our borders). The sports application not only enables players to make moves via their mobiles, but it provides real-time statistics and videos, thereby ensuring a nation of men will never again speak to anyone for 26 Sundays (including the bye and the empty pre-Super Bowl week).

Don't like CBS, no problem. You can head to Yahoo, which offers a similar suite of products -- which AT&T has integrated into its own mobile network.

We've covered the meteoric rise of fantasy sports, but it's still amazing how much innovation is thrown towards the industry. Even the famed card-counting, Vegas-busting, MIT student Jeff Ma has launched a Facebook application for fantasy sports.

Posted By Brad at 07:51 PM
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