Thanks to Roto Nation we have learned that Citizen Sports formerly ProTrade has purchased Sportacular, FantasyBook, and Sport Interactiva.  By making these purchase Citizen Sports is looking to dominate the Social Network Application sports space.  Sportacular gives Citizen Sports one of the best IPhone sports apps out there.  FantasyBook and Citizen Sports were the only two companies that launched Fantasy Football facebook applications that had solid adoption.  I am sure that is going to change in the future.  FantasyBook also brings their baseball application as well.  Sports Interactiva gives Citizen Sports  the best fantasy soccer Facebook application.

Citizen Sports is well positioned to be the sports lead in the app market for facebook, myspace, and the IPhone.  Now that they have positioned themselves well it will be interesting to see how they actually make money off these applications.

Website: Fantazzle

Interview With: Ryan Parr, founder

Is their more then one founder? If so, who are they?

Only one – Ryan Parr

What is your background and qualifications?

I have worked in the sports industry for the past four years and have been a fantasy sports fans for nearly 15. I graduated cum laude from James Madison University with a triple major in Economics, Marketing, and Marketing Information Systems with a minor in Computer Information Systems.

What does your website do?

Fantazzle provides short term fantasy games you can play for free or for an entry fee. All of our games give out cash prizes to the winners and are geared towards fantasy fanatics, individuals who do not want a season commitment, those who always seem to have issues getting leagues formed with their friends for various reasons, and others who may have had bad years in their traditional leagues and still want to have something on the line in fantasy games. At Fantazzle, you can create a fantasy team any day of the week and have fun rooting for your players during the pro games. The site offers several different types of games for fantasy football, baseball, basketball, golf, and auto racing games.

How do you generate revenue? If through ads, what ad network do you use?

We generate revenue by charging an administration fee upon game entry for setting up leagues and running the site.

How have your marketed your site?

Fantazzle is slowly ramping up its marketing and has used a number of different avenues including pay per click, banner ads, press releases, and working with non-competing sites to exchange exposure.

Funding: Self funded, Angel Investment, or Venture Capital?

Fantazzle is currently being funded by myself and friends and family.

Are You currently looking for funding?

Yes, we are actively looking for a partner to raise capital. We would like to find someone who believes in the opportunity and can add funding and resources to build something profitable and industry changing.

What type(s) of technology do you use?

We use PHP programming throughout the site to communicate with our back-end software. We also use an XML feed to connect with our stats provider.

What is your favorite feature on your website?

One of the coolest things Fantazzle offers is called FantaStock. You earn FantaStock when you do certain activities on the site like creating an account, making deposits, and more ways like playing games to come. You can use the FantaStock you earn to play in all of our games so its like free cash. While these types of loyalty programs are not groundbreaking, the FantaStock votes we will hold are. After every sports season concludes, we will hold shareholder votes for all of our players to vote on how Fantazzle runs its site and games. Votes will be on things like our scoring system, roster requirements, blog content, etc.The more shares you have, the more your opinion counts. This feature will put our players in power of how Fantazzle evolves.

Any Bold Predictions for Sports and Technology in the future?

As your site can attest, its an exciting time for the sports and fantasy sports online world. The development of Web 2.0 is really spurring the voice of the sports fan through social communities. All of the content and distribution of it will be a major benefit for fantasy sports. There are going to be some great innovations that will change the way we now play and view fantasy games and will make an already growing past time even bigger.

Website: Kornheiser’s Cartel

Interview With: Billy Buckles

When did you start your blog:

August, this year.

What made you start it?

I used to randomly write pieces and e-mail them out to two friends, came across Bleacher Report one day, posted a humorous NBA Mock Draft on there and just sent a link out to my few friends who’d care to read it. Some people gave me compliments, so I wrote a few more pieces. Then I wanted a customized site that could make my friends laugh, but I’m worthless with coding/design… So I asked a good friend to go halfsies on a domain name/server and design me one. We chose Kornheiser’s Cartel because it’s been our team name of choice for College Bowl, Intramurals, Fantasy Leagues, etc… It stems from an online game called PimpsLord we played years ago.

What is your background?

23 years old, Leo, blue eyes, great hai— er, 2008 Purdue graduate, extremely knowledgeable fan of a ton of sports, and I’ve had some interesting working experiences in the sports world. My co-founder is one of the nation’s best trivia competitors, and we took Purdue’s College Bowl team to nationals. But we’re not nerds. We’re not!

Do you blog for fun or are you trying to make it a career?

I’d always like to write on the side, and I’m open to writing opportunities, but it’s hard to envision writing eight hours daily.

What is your goal with this blog?

To entertain. And I like to have a vehicle to spread ideas and opinions I care about.

What was your tipping point? What put you on the map? (if you bring in more the 5,000 uniques a month)

We went into this expecting to get 200 hits a months, but we somehow received 5,000 UV’s in our first week, and almost 50,000 UV’s in September, our first whole month. We’ve been fortunate to have some heavyweight blogs appreciate our writing, and that’s how we get a decent chunk of views. Additionally, we’ve had a number of pieces receive thousands of views from StumbleUpon.

What type of blogging software do you use?

Blogger

What ad network(s) do you use?

Yardbarker, AdSense, Ad-Brite

How much money do you make off your site monthly?

Over a hundred bucks a month.

If you could get something for free to help you out with your blog, what would it be? (Ex: design, marketing, ad optimization, etc)

A few more writers…

What are some of your favorite blogs?

Indy Cornrows, Ball Don’t Lie, The Offside, Deadspin

Website: YouSport.com

Interview With: Willy Chataigner

Is their more then one founder? If so, who are they?

Ahmed Elbortoukaly, David Roser

What is your background and qualifications?

We have a very talented team with diverse horizons and skills

What does your website do?

YouSport is connecting people with a passion for soccer.

How do you generate revenue? If through ads, what ad network do you use?

no revenue yet, YouSport has launched in beta beginning of August.

How have your marketed your site?

Social marketing and SEO

Funding: Self funded, Angel Investment, or Venture Capital?

Self funded

Are You currently looking for funding?

Yes

What type(s) of technology do you use?

Open source, Php, MySql, Symfony

What is your favorite feature on your website?

The two new features that will be launched in a couple of weeks Otherwise I like the video and team manager features

Any Bold Predictions for Sports and Technology in the future?

The reference for sports social networking site.