Digi Jeff

MLB vs NBA vs NFL social media battle, who is really the biggest? Sports need a vevo-like platform for fans to share media

 Who is the king of sports when it comes to social media?  You might think the answer is easy, by going to each sport's twitter link and seeing their followers....but is that really the correct answer? 

On March 1st, I tweeted: 

"Interesting: @MLB has 900k followers... @nfl has 1.5M ...@NBA 1.8M....@MLB will have more than @nfl at end of year I predict."

MLB responded back to my tweet by direct message and said something that put something in a bigger perspective for me. 

"Total MLB ecosystem matters more. 200+ MLB Tweeps, nearly 5 million total followers for MLB on Twitter. http://bit.ly/bF3g54 a sample"

"but thanks for getting the word on @mlb out there! have a great spring training"

I think MLB really needs some social media players to really engage more with their fans. OchoCinco might not have the most followers (770k+) in the Twitterverse but he does a really good job engaging his fans.  Shaquille O'Neal (who I admired as a kid) has over 2.8+ million followers.  This is a HUGE number in the Twitterverse for a personal account and for the NBA ecosystem.  What is so special about Shaq? Personally, I think it's his personality and how he engages with his fans, which is key (but who will know the answer - maybe Shaq will tell me someday). MLB which I am a big fan of, really needs a Shaq/OchoCinco player to step up to the plate.  Who would be a good person in the MLB that would embrace social media the best?

All athletes/artists/actors etc need to REALLY READ this twice: 
Fans want to interact with you.  If a fan goes to your twitter page and they see no @replies to any of your followers, that's wack! You are not fooling anyone, we know you use your account for self promotion.  Nobody cares all the time about YOU, fans want to ask you questions.  The feeling of being responded to by your favorite athlete/actor/artist etc makes the fan feel special. That information will spread faster to other fans that are not even necessary fans of that person. Hmm now I think I figured out why Shaq has so many followers.

Fans want to share clips from their favorite game or when an awesome play is seen.  Problem with this is, when fans upload a clipped version of this awesome play to YouTube, the copyright rules for sports clips is so ridiculous, it's usually taken down within 24-48 hours.  

I know from experience, I posted a YouTube video I created, which was a tribute to the Colorado Rockies making it to the World Series in 2007.  The video quickly got to 15,000 views and then I got a message saying the video was removed due to copyright claims by the MLB.  There is two ways of looking at this: 1) Fans want to post this media online and it's inevitable 2) MLB doesn't make any money on this video and they own copyright so instead of YouTube making money on their material, they send DMCA complaints. 

Solution: Why don't MLB, NFL, NBA get together and make a Vevo like platform together, with agreement with YouTube and everyone wins?  This platform should have the ability of clipping a previous game so users can share via the platform.  Facebook integration, YouTube partnership, each sport is making money, problem solved?

I thought the music industry was strict on removing copyrighted content, but sports are very strict.  NBA gets a facebook thumbs up because they actually have their own YouTube page of the daily highlights which is great to share in social media.

How do you get your alerts to your favorite sports games? I enjoy using the iphone app Sportacular which I can set alert options on my favorite teams (definitely worth checking out).  When I'm at home I like to rely on twitter following ESPN, MLB, NFL, NBA.  Now sports teams are actually embracing social media more but I still feel like there is a big barrier still to cross.  

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Facebook Application Developer contact @digijeff

If you are looking for a facebook application developer contact me. Why create a facebook application? Facebook is the biggest social networking site on the internet with over 400+ million users.  Wouldn't it be great to take your website and have it active on Facebook? Answer: Yes. 

 

Digi Jeff "Will prostitute for Apple iPad" sign

Have you ever seen something on tv or the internet and say wow that is so cool, I got to get it when it comes out? Well that's what I said, except I'm willing to prostitute myself for one.....well not really so please don't email me offers.   Sometimes you got to do what you got to do to get what you need.

 

Want a Google Wave invite? I got 15 invitations left

All you got to do is tweet me with #waveinvite (click the link I gave it makes the tweet for you).  Include a reason on why you want one so bad (so I know you're not spam).  Hopefully you will lie to me and say something funny or creative :).

  

Personally I was excited to try Google Wave out and was disappointed. I don't really something so amazing about it.  It's good for group discussions.  

The next big thing from Twitter founder, Square

In February 2009, Jim McKelvey wasn’t able to sell a piece of his glass art because he couldn’t accept a credit card as payment. Even though a majority of payments has moved to plastic cards, accepting payments from cards is still difficult, requiring long applications, expensive hardware, and an overly complex experience. Square was born a few days later right next to the old San Francisco US Mint. Today the Square team is focused on bringing immediacy, transparency, and approachability to the world of payments: an inherently social interaction each of us participates in daily. We’re starting with a limited beta and rolling out to everyone in early 2010. More information

Vidly press release includes Chamillionaire and Digi Jeff

VIDLY INTRODUCES REAL-TIME VIDEO RESPONSES WITH VIDLY EXPRESS
First to market Twitter video service launches a new product called Vidly Express to empower
communities, blogs, celebrities, and artists to with their fans with real-time video responses.

(San Francisco, Calif.) November 23, 2009 – Vidly.com, a leading Twitter video sharing
service, announced a new product today that allows bloggers and website owners to easily
add a button to their site that makes it easy for their visitors to leave real-time video
responses and reactions to any blog post or news item.

“Vidly Express has reinvented video responses by making them easy to install and simple to
use" said Chrys Bader, CEO of Vidly.

Chamillionaire, a platinum Grammy award winning hip hop artist and entrepreneur, was the
first to implement Vidly Express on his official website chamillionaire.com.

"I think the addition of the video reply feature is an innovative way to keep fans active and
more involved. I'm looking forward to seeing the visual responses", said Chamillionaire.

“I think [Vidly Express] is one of those ideas that could be the next big thing”, said
Chamillionaire’s Digital Director, Jeff Lange, otherwise known as “Digi Jeff.”

Vidly Express is a great way for brands, artists, and content creators to engage their fans and
communities in a more personal and involved way.

DISQUS, the leading third-party comment system, will be one of the first to implement Vidly
Express into their popular commenting system.

“We expect Vidly Express to be used for more than just blog posts”, said Bader, “The potential
to facilitate citizen journalism, website feedback, and other creative uses is massive.”

About Vidly
Vidly.com allows you to share videos to Twitter from your mobile phone, computer, webcam,
and now powers video responses throughout the web.
Contact
Chrys Bader
press@vidly.com
(415) 817-1219

Vidly launches new feature, video responses for any site. Chamillionaire is first to add to his site.

update: Techcrunch wrote an article about this too, read it here.

Vidly is a great way to share videos using Twitter.  They just came out with a new feature called Vidly Express. Which you can add video responses to your site with a simple html code like Facebook share.  Vidly Express is now activated on www.chamillionaire.com as the first site using this new feature. 

I spoke with the founder Chrys Bader and gave him my insights on how this will help sites interact more with this feature.  For an artist like Chamillionaire, I feel this will really be beneficial to his fans because not only will they be able to send video responses to Chamillionaire, but other fans. 

After adding this to chamillionaire.com, Chamillionaire made his first video response letting his fans know:

Google's Chrome O/S makes more sense with this video

What if there was a way for you to boot up your computer in seconds and be on the internet? Google Chrome Operating System plans to make that happen.  I think after watching this, it finally makes sense on the advantages for Google Chrome O/S.  This video is right about majority of us using the computer for internet.  The web browser has been the most powerful tool that all of us use, before it was programs. 

Xbox and Playstation 3 using social media giants Facebook and Twitter (sick!)

Social media is now taking over video game consoles.

Noticed from a friend that tweeted from his xbox, I rushed to my TV to update my xbox.  I actually recently bought a Playstation 3 because it has blu-ray capabilities and haven't used my xbox for a while.  After a small update that xbox makes you install, facebook and twitter magically appeared on my screen. The Facebook and Twitter features are REALLY nice and better than what I was expecting.  I think Xbox did a fantastic job teaming up with Facebook & Twitter.  Both had really nice interfaces and you can do a lot more than I imagined.  The only thing that would make the experience better would be to get a bluetooth enabled keyboard to type faster. 

One thing I found that I think needs improvement is, being able to see new status updates from both platforms while you are in game play.  I don't think it would be that big of interference while playing....have a small screen that pop ups at the bottom.  That way I don't have to constantly look at my phone after each game.  Another feature I think they should add is a way to quickly tweet or facebook that you are currently playing ________ game.  That way you can just click a button and it sends out a status update to all your friends what game you are playing.

I look forward seeing Facebook on Playstation 3, but it looks on the last video I saw of their features,all it does is sign you in and use their website facebook.com better.  Xbox seems to have a lot nicer built in features and capabilities.

MY GAMER TAGS ARE:

XBOX - digijeff303

PS3 - digijeff

  

 

 

See what Digi Jeff told Mashable about Chamillionaire's new music video

Check out what I told Mashable's writer Jenn Van Grove about Chamillionaire's new video "Good Morning" and how we used Facebook / Ustream.

 

http://mashable.com/2009/11/16/chamillionaire-music-video/