14/4/08
In late 2006, the Premier League went after YouTube in an attempt to remove the plethora of clips uploading by fans, and the knock-on effect had thousands of user accounts suspended for ‘repeat violations’ and the subsequent springing up of alternative sources of footy videos (no point in publicising them here).
Then in May 2007 the [...]
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12/4/08
I remember, as a little kid, the anticipation and sheer joy involved in waiting for and finally acquiring a copy of the latest edition of the local cricket rag.
Times have changed – we deal almost exclusively with digital media now – but the tangibility of print media (books, magazines, newspapers) ensures that there’s a certain [...]
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29/3/08
Yesterday we talked about the gap between what MyFC (My Football Club) initially promised and what the venture actually delivers in terms of value to the users. Today let’s talk about another company that arrived with a big bang but ultimately collapsed when the revenues did not materialise as expected (or rather, as their huge [...]
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29/3/08
Fancy owning a football club? It used to be that you needed millions to buy out a club, but then MyFootballClub broke the barriers between big football and the common man and brought club ownership to the Internet for only £35 per year.
The biggest draw – the biggest selling point – was the level [...]
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16/2/08
Disclosure: I’m a registered member of MFC and as such, I guess I’m a single-share-holding member of the Trust that in turn has a 51% share in Ebbsfleet United.
Ian from 200Percent has written in quite some detail about MyFootballClub (thank you for the links, RR) and after going through all of them, I thought this [...]
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17/12/07
Update: Last week I posted a few questions that I had for MyFootballClub that were never answered. In stepped Simon from “The People’s Club” who was kind enough to answer our questions. The People’s Club is a similar venture to MyFootballClub, and to be honest the only reason I think they’ve paid us attention and [...]
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