Indian-based fantasy cricket universe Dream11.com has earned a nomination for the Red Herring Top 100 Asia Awards, which seek to recognize top technology startups.

“Dream11.com is extremely proud to be featured in the list of finalists for the Red Herring 100 Asia,” founder Harsh Jain said in the media release. “This recognition is a validation of our Fantasy Cricket concept and the business model weaved around Cricket Entertainment. The idea and the technology behind it has created outstanding growth for us and our partners in terms of revenues, new markets and new customers.”

Red Herring, a global media company focused on technology annually awards a top 100 each in North America, Europe and Asia, “celebrating the most promising companies … for leading innovation through technological revolution and creative adaption,” according to the company’s website.

Of the 2010 class in particular, Red Herring publisher and CEO Alex Vieux said: “This year was especially difficult. Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists. Dream11.com shows great promise therefore deserves to be among the Finalists. Now we’re faced with the difficult task of selecting the Winners of the Top 100 Asia Award.”

The nominations cover 200 entrants. Winners will be announced at a ceremony Nov. 16.

A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– Meatloaf recently told listeners of RotoWire Fantasy Sports Today on Sirius XM radio that his secret to success in fantasy baseball is judging players by what they did after the All-Star break.

– Here’s an interview with Dream11 COO Yashraj Vakil, who previously discussed his company’s fantasy-cricket portal right on this site.

– Recent ratings from comScore Media Matrix reportedly showed a 20 percent jump in traffic to American sports websites in May over April. Of course, that makes sense when you consider the advancing of the NHL and NBA playoffs, the approach of the World Cup and the aftermath of the NFL draft (or Draftermath).

– It’s ridiculously simple, folks: Host a fantasy league in a sport you “love and enjoy,” and you will make money. (This sound advice brought to you by every one-on-one interview from a relationship-related reality show.)

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A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– Visitors to FantasyPlayers.com — which is owned by Fantasy Sports Ventures and serves as the online home for their Fantasy Players Network — will notice that the site is currently redirecting to KFFL.com. KFFL’s Ryan Bonini told FSB.com that this is a temporary move while the company is “revamping” FantasyPlayers.com. We’ll check back in with details on the changes once the site is back up.

– The ESPN 30 for 30 fantasy documentary Silly Little Game premiered tonight, and here’s a semi-review Steve Gardener of USA Today. (We had to DVR it here at FSB.com headquarters for viewing after a week and a half of visiting the South.)

– As part of its promotion for Silly Little Game, ESPN.com put together a quick quiz on the origination of rotisserie baseball. (I got a decent 7 out of 10 correct, without cheating. I swear on my Rafael Palmeiro rookie card.)

– Ireland-based Ubecha.com is launching what seems to be a daily-game style fantasy platform for the upcoming World Cup. The press release is short on specific details of the game, but the general description seems to be in line with the short-turnaround, quick-payout games that have been popping up all over the place on the American fantasy sports scene recently. (The name of the site and discussion of “betting” in the release exemplifies a different marketplace the one governed by the UIGEA.)

– Harsh Jain of Dream11 has this writeup on the growing Internet market in India and the growth potential for fantasy sports in that market, particularly cricket.

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A roundup of items recently posted on the FSB News page.

– MLB Advanced Media announced this week a deal with STATS that makes the latter the “official real-time data licensor” for MLBAM statistics and information. It’s a multi-year deal that extends to baseball’s minor leagues. It can be tough to really understand just what this kind of deal means, but federal courts have told us in recent years that stats exist in the public domain. Ultimately, then, such a distribution agreement would seem to cover only the “official” MLB stats. Anyone attending or watching a game, though, can compile the same numbers.

– Recent FSB.com profile subject got a writeup from The Wall Street Journal’s Nando Di Fino this week, in which he suggested that American fantasy-game providers could learn from the site’s graphical model.

– As part of its in-season Weekly Lineup Challenge, FantasyFootballStarters.com has donated $1,000 to NFL-sposored charity Play It Smart on behalf of winner Alan LaFollette.

– Socaltech.com reports that NASCAR.com has contracted with Rotohog to produce a stock-market style game for this season.

– This AP story purports to be about rising female participation in fantasy, but it’s actually just a fun read about a few women who like to challenge the men in their leagues and their lives. (Let’s just hope that the Kansas University alum who fancies former Jayhawks for her fantasy hoops team has at least tended to get Paul Pierce.)

– If you can lead the field in “stable earnings” through April 17 in this new fantasy horse-racing game, you can win a trip to this year’s Kentucky Derby.

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