Nike & Google Launch Social Networking Site
Posted by Tom Warren on 21 March 2006 - 08:19 · 25 comments & 7733 views
Nike and Google have both paired up and quietly launched a invitation-only website for Football fans worldwide.
According to Business Week the two companies have been planning the site for the past eight months with Nike supplying the content and Google managing the technical side of things.
Joga.com is a network where users can create websites and send email, photos and video. Joga is only expected to focus soley on Football and nothing more.
Google is expected to announce Joga this week so expect a flurry of invite threads here on Neowin 
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#1 Posted by Gowcra on 21 Mar 2006 - 08:48
- Well this is interesting...............
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#2 Posted by Croquant on 21 Mar 2006 - 09:57
- Whoop de do. It's a google-built ad site for Nike masqurading as a socker fan site.
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#3 Posted by lethal0r on 21 Mar 2006 - 11:02
- that is one UGLY site.
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#4 Posted by Staind on 21 Mar 2006 - 13:00
- Long story short, I want the invite. :p
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#5 Posted by Munkyman on 21 Mar 2006 - 13:17
- Why are google things always invitation only? Simply to hype it up or as some kind of safety measure? Because it's bloody annoying.
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#6 Posted by Zirus1701 on 21 Mar 2006 - 13:18
- Thats Soccer... not Football....
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#6.1 Posted by robpears on 21 Mar 2006 - 16:27
- Wrong its football, football was established well before any american game it was created centuries before as a mob game which people participated in on holy days and other special days
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#7 Posted by gaurav on 21 Mar 2006 - 13:24
- i might check it out.
you can apply for an invite on that site.
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#8 Posted by Solarix on 21 Mar 2006 - 13:36
- thats soccer, not footbal well yea
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#9 Posted by Andos on 21 Mar 2006 - 13:42
- For americans. Here in europe/scandinavia (well in Denmark atleast) soccer is called football. And your kind of football is called american football
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#9.1 Posted by
[NFC]Wave on 21 Mar 2006 - 15:53
- I'm Canadian, what the hell do I call it?
Screw it: Kickball. -
#9.2 Posted by Cy Bones on 21 Mar 2006 - 17:03
- Football or Soccer - all the same... Soccer is derived from "Association Football".
Kickball does have a certain ring to it, maybe that should be used in one of those Bud adverts! -
#9.3 Posted by machorro on 21 Mar 2006 - 17:39
- not only in europe, almost everywhere its called FOOTBALL in central and latin america too, I think I asia must be called football too but I could be wrong(any asian fellow willing to confirm this
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NFC Wave call it by its real name football 
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#10 Posted by macf13nd on 21 Mar 2006 - 15:39
- The site looks like an amateur web designer bought the [fictional] GooglePack4Web application and shoved in a load of stuff. e.g. the grey google login on a black page. ??? the google video-esque movie that looks blu-tacked on. they've been developing the site for 8 months? please. oh yeah, and invites only, to promote exclusivity - not required, the site looks bad enough that they'll achieve exclusivity without any extra help. they must have been so worried about being swamped.
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#11 Posted by mikeyj on 21 Mar 2006 - 17:26
- Google & Nike should do a site like that for NCAA Basketball
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#12 Posted by tiagosilva29 on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:20
- Trivia: "Joga" means 'play' (depending on the context, verb) in Portuguese.
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#13 Posted by Squibbles on 21 Mar 2006 - 18:25
- Yep, Football in Asia too.
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#14 Posted by Banzai on 21 Mar 2006 - 19:53
- jock ball no thanks
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#15 Posted by flapjackman176 on 21 Mar 2006 - 20:42
- I call it Soccer, football, or fussal. there are so many names to it and they all mean the same thing.. the greatest sport on earth.
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#16 Posted by benjasmine on 22 Mar 2006 - 01:24
- maybe one day soccer will be as popular as american football and basketball in US...
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#17 Posted by indiehead on 22 Mar 2006 - 14:31
- eugh!
football,
"a sport for damaged people"
Robin Williams
sorry, no dis-respect intended, just hate the sport.
Anyone got a US Visa i can have so i can leave the UK?
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#17.1 Posted by Spaceman_Spiff on 22 Mar 2006 - 18:08
- Trade you my US Visa for your UK Visa. . .
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#18 Posted by Gowcra on 28 Mar 2006 - 08:38
- No thanks mate.
