Dream Teams: When Fantasy Sports Became Real
April 11th, 2015
Courtesy of the New Yorker, an interesting article on fantasy sports – another example of virtual worlds, real play: In the fall of 1979, while on a flight from Hartford to Austin, the writer Daniel Okrent was struck by an idea for conducting an auction of baseball players—or, rather, baseball players’ names and their future […]
Read more »Fantasy eSports
April 9th, 2015
Via Vice.com, a look at eSports: If you’re still getting used to the idea that 89 million people frequently watch competitive video game playing, or eSports, and that the United States government recognizes League of Legends players as professional athletes, you’re going to have a hard time wrapping your brain around fantasy eSports. Similar to fantasy sports sites […]
Read more »The Next Multibillion Dollar Tech Trend From Asia: E-sports
March 30th, 2015
Via VentureBeat, an interesting look at e-sports: What 2014 sporting event had more viewers than the NBA Finals (18 million), the NCAA men’s basketball championship (21.2 million), and the World Series (23.5 million)? If you guessed the Super Bowl (111.5 million), you’re correct. If you guessed the League of Legends Season 3 World Championship, an electronic sports […]
Read more »SynCurrency: Why Bitcoin Will Be Bigger Than The Internet
February 22nd, 2015
Via Business Insider, a detailed commentary on why bitcoin will be bigger than the internet: “In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.” —Wences Casares Serial entrepreneur Wences Casares created Argentina’s first internet provider and […]
Read more »SynCurrency: Bitcoin and the Digital-Currency Revolution
January 25th, 2015
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a detailed look at how, for all bitcoin’s growing pains, it represents the future of money and global finance: About a half-billion dollars worth of it vanished from an online exchange in Tokyo. A prosecutor in Manhattan arrested the 24-year-old vice chairman of its most prominent trading body on […]
Read more »Fantasy Sports See More Women In Their Future
January 24th, 2015
Via USAToday, interesting commentary on the growth of fantasy sports among women: Shortly after she got hooked on daily fantasy sports a few months ago, Laura Wimer noticed a drastic difference in how she watched NFL games. She watched a lot more games than she previously did. Sometimes she watched several games at once. And […]
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