Thu, Feb 19th, 2009 |
Major League Baseball is building an in-game chat system for the times. While its MLB.TV live video service had some 500,000 subscribers last year, only an average 18 people per game used the built-in chat feature. Not good enough.
So MLB.com is throwing out their old chat system and building a new one. And since we're closely following their MLB.TV development this spring, we want you to help.
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