YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game(techcrunch.com)
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YC-Funded FanChatter Takes Social Media To The Ball Game
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/01/yc-funded-fanchatter-takes-social-media-to-the-ball-game/
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I'd much rather if the FanChatters (and other YC groups) would just share what they were working on via the site. Using TechCrunch as a middle man in exchange for perceived authority is lame, and I think HN would develop a much stronger community and culture if we all just shared what we were working on directly and asked each other for help.
I think it's a side effect that the announcements happen via TechCrunch. I think the basic flow is this:
- Media coverage of YC companies tend to be posted to news.yc
- If TechCrunch will cover your launch, that's good for a company's visibility
- Thus, TechCrunch stories about YC companies launching end up on news.yc
- Media coverage of YC companies tend to be posted to news.yc
- If TechCrunch will cover your launch, that's good for a company's visibility
- Thus, TechCrunch stories about YC companies launching end up on news.yc
They do it for the publicity, not the authority. Only a small minority of people read HN. (And let's hope it stays that way.)
I understand the value of TechCrunch to get publicity with the general (tech) public. I just meant that within HN, I think sharing directly with each other would create a stronger community.
Cool, sounds very similar to the project abossy and I worked on: www.twitterbowl2009.com
Great job, guys, congrats on the launch!
Congratulations guys, nice work!
Congrats on the launch. As a passionate sports follower I would love to use fanchatter for my fav sports- F1 and Football.
Congrats dudes!
"that team could build very similar functionality using free or open source projects"
Are baseball teams really in the business of hiring a bunch of programmers to write a twitter clone? Seems like paying this company is much cheaper and much more likely to be successful.