Congratulations Matt! I've had my profile up for a while now....maybe I should fill it out with some eye popping stats so someone will want to pick me up on their softball team for the summer :-)
If you have kids or grandkids in sports you have to check this out. It's a great way for little leagues to do some cool stuff with their stats, pictures, videos (I think) in a social environment. With Caleb and Matt on board I have no question it will be great!
Yesterday was a big day for me, after 8 months of planning and product development work finally launched my new startup, Timu. Timu gave me a chance to apply many of the lessons learned with designing and building ActiveRain to another market, amateur sports.
It's a social networking platform specifically built to solve the communications problems encountered by athletes, sports teams and their fans. Online social networking is a natural way to solve many of these problems. Yet, existing social networks provide disjointed solutions that do not handle sports specific features, such as player rosters, game results and statistics. At the same time existing sports web site offerings provide little interactivity and user engagement.
Individual athletes can setup an profile on Timu in minutes. Profiles can be customized with information about the sports they participate in, teams they play on, and their competitive highlights. Photos, videos can be uploaded, and various “widgets” can be added or modified. These profiles serve as one center of communication within Timu.
Coaches, players, or parents can create a team center for your team on Timu. Team centers provide many features like team news, schedules, player rosters, photos, game results, statistics, statistics and a wide range of commmunication tools. All of the people associated with the team can be invited to become members of the team center, which can then function as a hub for team communications.
A few examples of team centers: http://bellevueblaze.timu.com http://dreadsox.timu.com http://baseball.timu.com
Currently Timu supports about 30 different sports ranging from baseball and soccer to unicycling. Each of these sports has it’s own section or hub on Timu including photos, videos, game results and discussions. Timu members can participate in the conversation at these hubs about their sport. As Timu grows we will be providing the ability to view these hubs by region, subsection of a sport, or even by sporting venue.
Friends, followers, and connections are the way of the future.
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Hi Bob!
What a great idea! If only I was still managing 1600 kids playing soccer...we so would have used something like this! I wish you only the best...I am sure it will be a great success!
And he had to have points... Now I will have to coach the 5 year old ice hockey player in the family to build his points... poop.
Sounds pretty cool, atheletes and their parents will love this.
Does Timu have points? I Re-Blogged Matt's post too. I also tweeted Matt's post to Central Ohio little league, soccer etc. teams this AM.
WidowMaker...
I set my profile and over the summer I'll mention Timu to the neighborhood kids. The one I see the most is a basketball star waiting to happen. I'll also make sure our Church Youth Group knows about this.
TLW...ROAR!
I saw this post a few days ago and I agree with you, seeing what Matt has done with Active Rain I have no doubt that this new site will be an enormous success.
I know there are other networks sites of this sort, but if Bob recommends this one, then it must be the one.
Bob, I took a look at Matt's new site yesterday but did not have much time to spend on it. I am hoping to play around with it this weekend, but if Matt put it together it must be good.
Bob ~ Thanks for re-blogging this for Matt because I would have missed it completely.
I have kids in youth sports and my son loves, loves to talk about how great he is! And his dad coaches so I cannot wait to share Timu with them! Thanks Bob.
You are about 30 years too late for me. What a great idea.
Bob,
Good to hear that Matt's new project is ready to do battle. Even though it's a bit outside my interest range I'll check it out.
Happy Birthday and CONGRATS!
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