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"BaseballNooz, an online alternative to mainstream baseball news and information, relaunched its site today with social networking, a start page and widgets.\nThe overhaul is extensive.  There are more social networking capabilities within their service, and a frontpage very similar to Pageflakes, where you can add pre-selected feeds and widget modules for all sorts of things, from baseball news to Epicurious recipes and Flickr photos.  While you can't add your own feeds or widgets, you can add more start page tabs; perhaps you'd like one for every baseball team you follow.\nThe new BaseballNooz site seems to be a MySpace clone with a Pageflakes option.  The level of customization for the start page as well as the profile page are rather limited as far as social networks go, but this could be largely due to the fact that the BaseballNooz social networking platform is powered by The Port, a white-label solution for businesses looking to add social media to their online brand - although some customizations have clearly been made, the platform still feels a little generic.  \nBut, we do think they've made some good decisions: since BaseballNooz is geared towards offering information and news regarding baseball, a custom startpage makes a lot of sense.\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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