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Tim TroutThings around the office are getting interesting. Many of us have been tasked with handling certain aspects of the new Web site, so it’s a group effort to say the least.
The number of details are pretty overwhelming. I definitely feel like things are moving along quickly the last few weeks – new development and creative are being added each day now. Before, we would wait for weeks before something new would show up. It really is an exciting experience.
I can’t wait for people outside of this building to see it. Some things you’ll notice at launch will be bright colors and cool icons to help you get around. The site will be centered on four major themes: Learn, Discuss, Organize and Shop. With everything integrated, you’ll be able to do all of your favorite things in one place vs. hopping around on the current site.
Let’s take 2007 Bowman’s Best Baseball as an example – on the current site you have to hunt through the marketplace to buy it, search through editorial to read reviews or watch videos, go to My Collections to ad it to your collection, dig through online price guides to figure out what it’s worth. On the new site, you’ll be able to do ALL OF THAT in one place. You guys are going to love this new site. It’s so different and so much better. It truly is “Collecting Reinvented.” – Danielle Ramsey, Beckett Media
Filed under: Beckett.com, Top Secret | Tags: Beckett Baseball, Beckett.com
The genie is out of the bottle…sort of. Promotional material for the NEW Beckett Web site will be seen in print in about two weeks. Plus, there is a development site up that we can look at internally.
No, it’s for our eyes only at this point. But if you haven’t volunteered to be a Beckett Beta tester for the new site, now would be a good time to be a guinea pig step up and help out your fellow collecting world.
Here’s a copy of the ad that’s running in the next issue of Beckett Baseball. There’s more detail in editorial form inside the magazine. One day soon, you’ll log on to Beckett.com and freak out — it will be that good.
Filed under: Memorabilia, NFL | Tags: authentication, NFL, PSA, Super Bowl XLII
PSA says today that it will be authenticating footballs used in Sunday’s big game. According to the news release:
More than 120 footballs are expected to be used for Super Bowl in XLII.
For the sake of argument, let’s say each team runs 60 plays from scrimmage, punts four times, and kicks off five times. That’s about 140 snaps. If taken literally, that means a different football will be used for most every play, and that football, when taken out of the game, would not be used again.
Instead, it would be tagged and later affixed with DNA, etc.
Does this seem feasible?
