Ideas
Football Text Commentary via RSS / XML
As a football fanatic I often find myself constantly refreshing the Premiership scores on my WAP mobile desperately trying to get an update. Often it will be several minutes before the WAP page refreshes. Even the live text commentary lags a few minutes behind real time.
Publishing the text commentary via RSS gives a far more flexible platform for which a feed reader for almost any kind of client can be developed, not just WAP phones. Users could potentially select the matches / events they want to know about.
Why not go the whole hog and use XML to create a flexible Football commentary message format and use web services to update clients in real time.
Think of the accessibility features. For example, using text to speech software, text commentary or football scores can be more accessible for the partially sighted.
I'd be happy to develop some prototype applications for mobile phone or desktop clients if it means fianlly no constant thrashing of my micro browser to see the latest score!
- 12 May 2005 05:19 PM
Fantastic idea. I was just looking for an RSS feed providing the latest scores, so that it could maybe be used as a Google Personalized Homepage component. But the full match as RSS, that'd be every bit as good.