Alpine skier Bode Miller, his agent Lowell Taub and a California technology firm have created a joint venture that this winter will launch skispace.com, a skiing social-networking site designed to overtake the fractionalized market for online skiing content. Loosely described as a MySpace for skiing, skispace.com will combine resort and equipment reviews, trail conditions, instruction, user-generated material, video from content partner World Championship Sports Network, and a variety of other content. Miller will serve as chief executive of the new venture, Taub will be the chief marketing officer, and running the day-to-day operation as chief operating officer will be Ryan Blair, founder of PathConnect.com. Other athletes have launched similar social-networking sites for their respective sports. Katie Hoff, Michael Phelps and other swimmers associated with Octagon agent Peter Carlisle launched swimroom.com this year, and skateboarders Jereme Rogers, Paul Rodriguez and Terry Kennedy, who work with Wasserman Media Group’s Circe Wallace, recently launched sk8site.com.http://sportsbusinessjournal.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.main&articleId=56704
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