Fafarazzi,has a “fantasy celebrity league” where you form teams and earn points based on how much shit your chosen celebrities are creating in the blogosphere. Fafarazzi sucks in posts from around 15 of the top gossip blogs, then assigns points to the celebrities mentioned. You start by joining a league - then you just draft your favorite celebrities and start scoring points. When the “season” ends, the points are totalled up and a winning team is declared. The site was created by two developers: Chris Keller and Todd Galloway. They plan to make money from ads and by charging a small fee for establishing private leagues. Prety smart ehy?
Technically, it’s not all that impressive. In fact, it’s clunky. The Feedburner feeds still display the ads and FeedFlare units, and the interface takes a lot of getting used to - in many ways, it’s just a spruced-up blogging template. What’s more, it takes some digging to figure out how the teams, leagues and seasons work. In their favor, celebrities do have mainstream appeal - see Fanpop, Teamsugar and Kevo for more celeb-based social networks.
Mashable.com say's they’re also trying out some MySpace marketing and providing widgets to add to MySpace, Friendster, Blogger, Windows Live Spaces, Xanga and other popular platforms. The widgets include a “Celebrity Scoring Ticker” and a scoreboard for your team. If they could encourage one of the major celeb blogs to display a widget, they might be able to refer some dedicated users.
While I like the idea of social networking and who doesn't like celebrities, I’m not totally sold on Fafarazzi . Nonetheless, It's worthy of makin Bacn..If you like this article Vote For Bacn
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