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Rated • 1 review • baseball • fansnap.com
Here are the MLB playoffs in one, handy calendar. Down below, there's ticket availability and ticket prices for the upcoming games as well as wins and losses for the ones that have been played.
Rated • 1 review • sports • fansnap.com
The defending Super Bowl champion Steelers fell out of the #1 slot in the FanSnap FanDemand rankings this week as they travel to Chicago to take on the Bears. The Bears now sit atop the FanDemand rankings. Steelers and Bears fans will be vying for the hottest ticket in the NFL -- seats at Soldier Field on Sunday. (see the complete rankings below)
Rated • 1 review • sports • nytimes.com
Is This Seat Taken? In Front Rows of New Ballparks, Not Yet
Many fans with tickets are trying to recoup what they can by selling some of them online well below face value. More than 10,000 tickets (about 20 percent of the ballpark) for the Yankees' game against the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday were available, a handful for as little as $5, according to FanSnap.com, which scans the Web sites of five dozen ticket resellers.
"More season-ticket holders than ever before are selling into the market," said Michael Janes, FanSnap's chief executive. "Some people need to generate cash to pay the rent."
Rated • 3 reviews • search, tickets, concert tickets, vertical search • fansnap.com
FanSnap is a search engine for tickets. Want to know what tickets will run you for a sports event, theater or concert? FanSnap tickets from all the leading providers in one place.
Rated • 1 review • business • cnn.com
Ticket resellers: A butt in every seat
The secondary market is hot, but Web brokers are facing tough economic woes and competition.
YORK (Fortune) -- Don't call them scalpers - call them resellers instead. They are brokers that peddle hard-to-find tickets for live events such as concerts or sporting events, and they have gone legit thanks largely to the Internet.
Rated • 1 review • mediadeluge.com
Sites like Kayak (travel) and Indeed (jobs) have figured out how to present consumers with data from sites across the web in an efficient and user-friendly way. FanSnap is attempting to do the same for tickets to concerts, broadway, sports events and the like.
Rated • 1 review • business, communication, social media, technology, web 2 0 • mediadeluge.com
All of this product innovation is paying off for socialmedian. The social news site has nearly doubled visits in each of the last two months.
Rated • 1 review • journalism • mediadeluge.com
SpinSpotter launched this week at DEMOfall to tap the wisdom of the crowd to flag media bias in online coverage. SpinSpotter lets users see, share, and edit spin wherever they go online. To guide users, SpinSpotter lays out what it calls the "Seven Deadly Spins."
"Our main goal during this beta testing period is to recruit users who can go in and create spinmarkers so that the service's algorithm can become smarter about flagging key spin phrases etc. on its own, "SpinSpotter's PR said.
