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Google Street View Hyperlapses of all 30 MLB Stadiums

[vimeo 63653873]   Have you ever wanted to road-trip to every MLB stadium but just can’t find the time or money? Well, now you can thanks to an awesome new tool developed by an independent unit within Teehan+Lax.  Mashable’s Sam Laird is calling it a tool for creating “mind-bending journeys.” It’s named Google Street View Hyperlapse. So what […]

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Phillies and Yankees Would Face Off In a 2012 Twitter World Series

By Simon Ogus – Email  |  Twitter |  Articles The 2012 Major League Baseball season kicked off Wednesday night at new Marlins stadium and it got us thinking about who the best teams are at engaging fans through Twitter. It turns out the Philadelphia Phillies blow away everyone with 679,519 followers while posting just over 4,000 tweets, by far the largest “follower to tweet” ratio in all of MLB. The New York Yankees pace the American league with 554,000 followers, but have a very low tweet count of just fewer than 5,000, which is much less than many other teams. The Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals respectively have the league’s lowest and second-lowest amounts of Twitter followers; the only teams to...

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UFC First to Show Power of Live Streaming Sports On Facebook

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the first sport to demonstrate the power of streaming live sports from within Facebook – and the league is just getting started. Last January, the UFC showed four preliminary bouts live on Facebook for its Fight for the Troops 2 show. Since then, the league has continued to live stream almost every preliminary fight for […]

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