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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
| − | + | Launching on 1 August 2011, Line.com (formerly PickMonitor.com) is a social network for people who enjoy predicting the outcome of sporting events. It offers services especially geared towards professional handicappers, but is also designed to appeal to the average sports fan. | |
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| + | ===History=== | ||
| + | PickMonitor.com was launched by Patrick Griffith as a side project in May of 2009. After gaining some traction and being encouraged by users, Patrick eventually decided to focus on PickMonitor.com. | ||
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| + | After talks with the owner of the domain name "line.com" in April of 2010, PickMonitor.com was able to acquire the new domain name in a licensing agreement which shall not be made public at this time. | ||
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| + | The site was completely remodeled for the new domain name, though all core functionality and goals remained intact. The new version of the site launched on www.line.com on 1 August 2011. The new version was met with mixed reviews, but skeptics were turned into believers as several patches were released in the following month that made all of the disgruntled users happy. | ||
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| + | ===Free Services=== | ||
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| + | ====Pick Tracking==== | ||
| + | Pick tracking is at the core of Line.com, and was its first service offered. This service was designed to be an entertainment tool for non-bettors; to allow these users to experience the thrill of gambling without the risk. It was also designed to help bettors by allowing them to perfect their strategies for free before risking real money, and by providing analytics on all picks to allow the user to analyze and remove parts of their strategy that didn't work. | ||
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| + | ====Sports Monitor==== | ||
| + | Line.com was built with the intent of being a personal pick monitor/tracker and not as a public validation tool. It become known as the Internet's authority on sports monitoring purely by accident. That being said, it takes its role as the most trusted source of handicapping integrity very seriously. Sports monitoring services are bountiful. These services may or may not be legitimate, but its impossible to tell. The social nature of Line.com along with its transparency standards makes it physically impossible for records to be altered. | ||
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| + | ====Sports Betting Forum==== | ||
| + | Line.com's forum is significantly different than other forums in this industry because it focuses heavily on quality over quantity. Unlike Covers.com for example, Line.com does not allow posts that simply contain free picks nor does it allow posts that contain nothing more than "good job" or "thanks". Although it greatly respects sites like Covers.com, SBRForum.com and others, Line.com caters to a different, more sophisticated audience. | ||
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| + | ===Paid Services=== | ||
| + | Line.com operates on a freemium model which is especially effective because the free users provide the majority of the data being sold as a paid service for the Gold Membership - Line.com's most popular service. | ||
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| + | Its Fantasy Sportsbook allows people to simulate the rush of real gambling without any risk involved. Because all picks are recorded and made publicly available immediately after the start of each game, this fantasy sportsbook also | ||
==Languages== | ==Languages== | ||
Revision as of 04:08, 17 March 2012
Title
Line.com
Description
Launching on 1 August 2011, Line.com (formerly PickMonitor.com) is a social network for people who enjoy predicting the outcome of sporting events. It offers services especially geared towards professional handicappers, but is also designed to appeal to the average sports fan.
History
PickMonitor.com was launched by Patrick Griffith as a side project in May of 2009. After gaining some traction and being encouraged by users, Patrick eventually decided to focus on PickMonitor.com.
After talks with the owner of the domain name "line.com" in April of 2010, PickMonitor.com was able to acquire the new domain name in a licensing agreement which shall not be made public at this time.
The site was completely remodeled for the new domain name, though all core functionality and goals remained intact. The new version of the site launched on www.line.com on 1 August 2011. The new version was met with mixed reviews, but skeptics were turned into believers as several patches were released in the following month that made all of the disgruntled users happy.
Free Services
Pick Tracking
Pick tracking is at the core of Line.com, and was its first service offered. This service was designed to be an entertainment tool for non-bettors; to allow these users to experience the thrill of gambling without the risk. It was also designed to help bettors by allowing them to perfect their strategies for free before risking real money, and by providing analytics on all picks to allow the user to analyze and remove parts of their strategy that didn't work.
Sports Monitor
Line.com was built with the intent of being a personal pick monitor/tracker and not as a public validation tool. It become known as the Internet's authority on sports monitoring purely by accident. That being said, it takes its role as the most trusted source of handicapping integrity very seriously. Sports monitoring services are bountiful. These services may or may not be legitimate, but its impossible to tell. The social nature of Line.com along with its transparency standards makes it physically impossible for records to be altered.
Sports Betting Forum
Line.com's forum is significantly different than other forums in this industry because it focuses heavily on quality over quantity. Unlike Covers.com for example, Line.com does not allow posts that simply contain free picks nor does it allow posts that contain nothing more than "good job" or "thanks". Although it greatly respects sites like Covers.com, SBRForum.com and others, Line.com caters to a different, more sophisticated audience.
Paid Services
Line.com operates on a freemium model which is especially effective because the free users provide the majority of the data being sold as a paid service for the Gold Membership - Line.com's most popular service.
Its Fantasy Sportsbook allows people to simulate the rush of real gambling without any risk involved. Because all picks are recorded and made publicly available immediately after the start of each game, this fantasy sportsbook also
Languages
English
Contact
| Whois information is public, but in response to some people wanting to keep their contact information private, many domain name Registrars offer a "privacy" or "proxy" service to mask the domain name owner. This domain is most likely using a proxy service. |
Additional Information
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External Links
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