Everyone's a fan of something or someone: a sports team or a movie star, a rock star or an author, a politician or an exotic destination. Just launched, SuperFan.com, is an online community where fans can tell the world what and who they love, be matched with others who share their passions, be introduced to new favorite things, and -- through an innovative social game -- amass Credits to become the world's top SuperFan for just about anything imaginable.
Taking cues from the fun of MySpace, the real-time expressiveness of Twitter and the community and connections of Facebook, SuperFan.com appeals to anyone who's ever cared enough about anything to buy it, watch it, read it, visit it -- or tell the world about it. Besides selecting Faves from a tremendously diverse database; organized into categories like music, celebrities, TV, movies, characters, sports, video games, books, brands, schools and places; SuperFan.com users can put their fandom to the test by creating and taking Trivia Quizzes, and (Red Sox and Yankees fans, take note) can set up head-to-head Battles between them. SuperFan.com even integrates with other social networks to make self-expression seamless, from instant sign up to syndication.
SuperFan.com's San Francisco-based founder is rabid fan Rick Marini, a Harvard MBA whose passions, as shown on his SuperFan.com page (http://superfan.com/rick) include the aforementioned Red Sox plus indie rock and heavy metal musicians, TV shows like Lost and The Office, Guinness Beer and his native New Hampshire. An Internet pioneer, Marini built the Webby-Award-winning, quiz-driven Tickle.com into a global top 20 site with over 200 million registered users, then sold it to Monster Worldwide in 2004 for over $100 million.
A group of innovators and Social Media experts (including key architects of Tickle.com) the entire SuperFan.com team is united by an affinity for music, entertainment, sports, video games, and the plethora of other categories that fulfill SuperFan's mission -- creating a community that puts fans first.
The SuperFan Board of Advisers includes Internet leaders Shawn Fanning (founder of Napster and Rupture), Philip Kaplan (founder of F'd Company and AdBrite), James Currier (founder of WonderHill and Tickle) and Blake Commagere (creator of the Causes, Vampires and Zombies apps on Facebook).
http://www.superfan.com
http://superfan.com/about/features
http://superfan.com/explore/faves
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