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Title: How Fancred is challenging Facebook for your sports fandom Post by: HCK on December 16, 2014, 09:00:20 pm How Fancred is challenging Facebook for your sports fandom
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Unless you’re a diehard sports fan, you probably haven’t heard of Fancred (https://fancred.com/)—yet. The sports fan-focused social network is quietly building momentum in a quest to do for sports what LinkedIn has done for professionals.</p><p> “We think we’re building the world’s largest fan network,” said CEO Kash Razzaghi.</p><p> That mission continues this week with the launch of “Your Fancred,” a redesigned profile that puts your fandom front and center. Razzaghi noticed that people already used their favorite teams as identifiers in their bios on other social networks, so the platform is using teams as a way to organize activity on the network with a new feature called Team Albums. The conversations you have with fellow fans, the photos and articles you post, and your check-ins at stadiums will now be organized into team-specific albums on your profile for easier access (and to show off your pride).</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2859702/how-fancred-is-challenging-facebook-for-your-sports-fandom.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How Fancred is challenging Facebook for your sports fandom (http://www.macworld.com/article/2859702/how-fancred-is-challenging-facebook-for-your-sports-fandom.html#tk.rss_all) |