User:Inspiredminds/Sandbox
Type of site | Social network service |
|---|---|
| Available in | English, German, Spanish |
| Owner | Footbo Ltd. |
| URL | http://www.footbo.com |
| Commercial | Free |
| Registration | Yes |
| Current status | Active |
Footbo or Footbo.com is an international social networking website designed to encourage interaction between football (soccer) fans world-wide, and was co-founded by football analyst and journalist Rafi Honigstein, together with his brother Mani Honigstein. [1] [2] It’s headquartered in London, England.
The website is available in English, German and Spanish, and the Footbo community enables users to access team and player profiles, blogs of football personalities and other users, as well as make game predictions.[3]
Footbo’s Beta site was launched in May 2008 and “focuses on offering an information and interaction hub for everyday football fans.” [4] It's launch coincided with Euro 2008 which began in June.[5] The site provides football-related content, including tens of thousands of team and player profiles, which is user-generated.[6]
Users build their own profile page where they can identify which teams and players they support, can create groups and add media. General features include live feeds, line-ups, game schedules and tables from about 70 leagues around the world, and a predictions section in which users can compete against each other by predicting the final scores of games. Users can grade the performances of players at the end of each game, and contribute to electing the community’s “Top 11″ of each league or round. Following Footbo's launch, Argentine football magazine El Gráfico suggested 10 reasons for signing up to Footbo.[7]
Football analysts Guillem Balague and Gabriele Marcotti contribute to the site in the form of blogs and, Arsenal and Cameroonian player Alexandre Song began posting blogs on Footbo, whilst representing Cameroon in the Olympics, as a means to interact and communicate with football fans.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Bundesliga Talk: Interview With Raphael Honigstein
- ^ EPL Talk: Interview With Mani Honigstein, Co-Founder Of Footbo.com
- ^ Soccerlens: Footbo.com Review
- ^ TechCrunch: Footbo.com: (Real) Football Social Network Kicks-Off Roi Carthy, June 16 2008, Acessed June 2008
- ^ Mashable: Euro 2008 Fans Unite on Footbo
- ^ Simon Jobling - Footbo
- ^ El Gráfico: Las 10 claves para aprovechar footbo
- ^ PRNewswire: Cameroon and Arsenal Star Alexandre Song to Blog From the Olympics on Footbo.com
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