CBS Fans Only’sphere

If you like keeping up with sports, videos, tidbits and scoops, you’ll want to check out the new CBS sports Network site, Fans Only. If you’re a serious sports fan, I think you’ll love their new site. It’s a social networking platform that you can personalize (similar to NetVibes or PageFlakes) to display up to the minute news from thousands of sources, virtual tailgates, blogs and game picks. Fans can free create pages to follow their favorite teams, adding multimedia content such as streaming video highlights, statistics, polls, rankings and chats. This is very novel. It’s fun, it’s interactive, confident and progressive to let readers “slice and dice” media.

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CBS’Sphere

I recently attended the Paley Center Gala honoring Sumner Redstone for his outstanding contributions to the media industry. It was a bit of a Who’s Who affair, Tony Bennett sang, Charlie Rose was the emcee, The NYC Media was in Black tie, joining Barbara Walters and countless stars who attended.

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CBS’Sphere!

We’re all giddy over today’s announcement of our newest partner, CBS News. The Sphere Related Content widget has been added to their site, creating another great opportunity for Internet readers to connect to the blogosphere. CBS is one of those venerable brands that makes you feel special with whom to be a partner. CBS has a long tradition of innovation and journalism excellence. Embracing the blogosphere is yet another example of their open and progressive approach to creating the most compelling user experience for their customers.

CBS News content is also being crawled and indexed at Sphere.com, giving our users another quality content source. Thanks to Betsy Morgan and Bill Martens at CBS News for embracing the blogosphere and for their unwavering support in partnering with Sphere.

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