Many people are still on the fence about location-based services, which enable people to check in to venues such as restaurants, shops and sports stadiums and share their location with friends on social networks. According to a Comscore study from March, 17.6% of smartphone users checked in to services such as Foursquare, Facebook Places and Gowalla. eMarketer recently published results of a study [...]

Today is the last post in a series with thoughts from some pretty smart folks to try to answer the question of why people should care about the intersection of sports and social media. You can see the first eight posts below: why should fans care? why should teams care? why should athletes care? why should agents care? why should coaches care? why should colleges care? why should [...]

Today is the eighth in a series of posts (a new post each day) with thoughts from some pretty smart folks to try to answer the question of why people should care about the intersection of sports and social media. You can see the first seven posts below: why should fans care? why should teams care? why should athletes care? why should agents care? why should coaches care? why should [...]

Today is the seventh in a series of posts (a new post each day) with thoughts from some pretty smart folks to try to answer the question of why people should care about the intersection of sports and social media. You can see the first six posts below: why should fans care? why should teams care? why should athletes care? why should agents care? why should coaches care? why should colleges [...]

Today is the sixth in a series of posts (a new post each day) with thoughts from some pretty smart folks to try to answer the question of why people should care about the intersection of sports and social media. You can see the first five posts below: why should fans care? why should teams care? why should athletes care? why should agents care? why should coaches care? Even if you already [...]

Today is the third in a series of posts (a new post each day) with thoughts from some pretty smart folks to try to answer the question of why people should care about the intersection of sports and social media. You can see the first two posts below: why should fans care? why should teams care? Even if you already know why this is important, I hope you enjoy getting a variety of perspectives [...]