I was talking to a fellow Brit last night about a new soccer-related start up he’s building. Then I got to thinking… I’d love someone to build a “soccer news” dashboard from the realtime data that OneRiot delivers.
We’ve blogged before about the way OneRiot indexes and ranks. You can read more about it in our (mercifully short) white paper. Broadly speaking, our results reflect the current “pulse” on the web for any subject. We find “the good stuff” that people are buzzing about right now.
Specifically on that “soccer dashboard” idea, here are a few neat tricks you can employ to get the most out of our index and ranking algorithm.
You can do a “multiple domain search” on OneRiot, and add a key word. So, for example, here is a search to find the buzz on Manchester United from the British press.
We can then feed that information to you via RSS, like we’ve done here.
This means you can syndicate and/or present that information how you see fit.
OneRIot also has an API, so you could do server side integration and work with the XML or JSON that we return. This contains a rich set of “social metadata” (such as the ability to see which user shared a particular link on what service on the social web). Do an API call for every team, if you want (but maybe leave out Hull, because they will be relegated before you finish your project 
Finally, you could take a stream of our results for a particular team and feed them into a Twitter account. Twitter followers would then see a stream of links to the buzziest content on the web for their favorite team. An easy way to do this is via Twitterfeed (we use this for our RiotFeeds). Here’s one I just made last week that tracks the buzziest stories from the British Press on Chelsea FC - @ChelseaFCBuzz - it’s killer content!
As a football-crazy Brit abroad, I’d love someone to build this. If you do, let me know - you’ll be my homepage in a heartbeat.
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