Posted on 15. Jun, 2008 by in Client News, New Media | No Comments
Robert Scoble had a guest column on TechCrunch yesterday arguing that Kyte beat out its competitors in the market for live video streaming from your mobile phone. We’ve already selected Kyte as the video platform for the project that I’m working on for SRAM, so we must be really smart.
Posted on 13. Jun, 2008 by in Bike Racing | No Comments
BikeRadar’s North America Editor Gary Boulanger has weighed in on Boonen’s transgressions with this:
Placing any sports figure on a platform is not healthy. Give them suitcases full of cash, and many times all hell breaks loose. It’s one thing for a professional American football, soccer, basketball or baseball player to choose to let fame go [...]
Posted on 13. Jun, 2008 by in Bike industry, Trends | No Comments
Michael Z from SRAM was telling me in Philly about a private fundraiser for Barack Obama that was organized by Stan or F.K. Day. (I forget which, sorry guys). It turns out that at the event, Obama promised to “increase funding for cycling and pedestrian projects,” according to Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. My [...]
Posted on 11. Jun, 2008 by in Bike Racing | No Comments
ASO has uninvited Tom Boonen from the Tour de France because he tested positive for cocaine in an out-of-competition test. Thankfully, everyone including race director Christian Prudhomme agrees that this isn’t about doping, just a case of a guy doing some coke.
But that is some heavy-handed moralism and I doubt that it will even play [...]
Posted on 10. Jun, 2008 by in Bike Racing, Sports Business | 2 Comments
A lot of major teams are looking for new title sponsors for next season and Riis Cycling (aka Team CSC) is the first to provide some good news: Saxo Bank! Hopefully, the fact that Riis was able to replace CSC within 3 months is a good portend for High Road, Gerolsteiner, etc.
Saxo will come on [...]
Posted on 09. Jun, 2008 by in Personal, Trends | No Comments
After a year off, I spent this past weekend in Philly for the Commerce Bank Philadelphia International Championship testing hardware and web tools to produce content for my project with SRAM. I’ll post some of the results soon, but I came across this giant wooden track bike in the airport and it’s arguably the coolest [...]
Posted on 02. Jun, 2008 by in Bike Racing, Sports Business | No Comments
I highly recommend that you download this PDF of Organizational Forms in Professional Cycling – Efficiency Issues of the UCI Pro Tour, a research paper on the economics of the sport by Luca Rebeggiani of the University of Hannover and Davide Tondani of the University of Parma.
ABSTRACT: This paper gives a first economic approach to [...]
Posted on 01. Jun, 2008 by in Bike Racing, Bike industry, Marketing | No Comments
I caught the final Giro d’Italia broadcast on Versus today. Liggett and Sherwin tried their best to add some drama to the race for the pink jersey but there was really no chance of Alberto Contador losing time to Ricardo Ricco in a flat time trial. It was great to see SRAM going 1-2 overall!
Whenever [...]
