SportsFanLive, a perfect combination of exciting sports news and social networking will be a perfect mix. SportsFanLive users can perform various tasks so as to accumulate its virtual currency, FanBucks. The same can be used for the purpose of waging gentleman’s bets. The bets can range from predicting the winner of games to predicting that a NBA athlete will wear, say an orange suit to a draft event.

David Katz believes such features and also the fact that SportsFanLive is being positioned as an interactive community platform from the ground up sure will help it stand out in a crowded online arena. He is a former CBS & Yahoo Media employee.

He said, “There is no more passionate user I have ever seen on the Internet than the sports fan. I would argue that no one (so far) has really done this kind of community platform. I don’t see any innovation taking place among the big players. Everyone is running the same stories and adding things like message boards and fantasy sports.”

MySpace and Facebook would apparently be solid venues ‘to engineer the sort of fan interaction’ SportsFanLive is actually striving for, Katz felt that those websites are ‘not so great for sports fans; it’s hard to build subscription networks on those websites.”