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How To: Create a Killer “Soccer News” Dashboard with OneRiot

11/06/09 - Posted by Tobias Peggs under Life at OneRiot, OneRiot News, Sports

picture-1138 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.

Weekend Sports Roundup

11/03/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Sports

Is it just us or does the regular world seem to stop for the wide world of sports every weekend? That was a rhetorical question. It’s not just us. The entire world does pause so pigskins can be tossed, fastballs can be launched into the upper deck, and speeding vehicles can repeatedly circle around tracks for hours at a time in anticipation of capturing a checkered flag. It’s just the natural order of work giving way to leisure as soon as Friday comes around. This weekend was really no different as several huge sports stories overwhelmed the social web.

The Hawkeyes of Iowa continued to clog up the BCS Bowl picture by remaining undefeated thanks to a splendid 2nd half comeback engineered by QB Ricky Stanzi. However, Stanzi was not the biggest QB to make a dent on users of the realtime web. Brett Favre proved to Packers fans that he could still sling the football as he returned to Lambeau Field for revenge against the Green Bay Pack attack. CBS had a handle on the importance of this event and they oversold it by instituting the Brett Favre cam, which apparently showed everything Brett did all day prior to and during the game against his former mates, bringing new definition to realtime web. We tuned out during the bathroom breaks but the cam-page has garnered a lot of shares by social web users even still today. We hope no one is following us that closely when we turn 40 and are overly-glorified bloggers who no doubt will warrant our every move being broadcast to the farthest reaches of the broadband universe. (more…)

Tags: Baseball, Favre, Football, NASCAR

Philly Phanaticism

10/29/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Sports

It’s fall in Philadelphia, and this year, it’s special. The Phillies get a chance to beat New York at their own game (baseball, invented in Cooperstown, NY in 1839). Last year’s World Series victory saw an uproarious city with a reason to celebrate violently, and that they did. As a city not used to such occasions, there were some disastrous outcomes, mainly for Robinson’s Luggage at Broad and Walnut, the only store in downtown Philly to be looted that night (people just wanted quality suitcases…for free). A day before this year’s NL championship game, the city had workers grease up all the poles along South Broad St. This cartoonish precaution was taken as an honest attempt to protect Philadelphians from themselves. (more…)

Tags: Baseball, Phillies, Sports, Yankees

NBA Set for Tip Off

10/27/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Sports

The end of October is almost without a doubt the most exciting time in sports. Football season is in full swing, hockey freshly underway, and today we find ourselves on the verge of both the World Series and the NBA season. We’d like to think the fall classic between the Yanks and Phillies has captured the hearts and minds, (not to mention keyboards,) of the social web, but instead it’s the premiere tip-off that has realtime net denizens searching up a storm. Roundball’s regular season kicks off with a slate of four games including Kobe and Co starting their title defense against the crosstown Clippers. While there’s been renewed optimism on the side of the perennially cursed Clips, the squad led by usually puzzled Coach and GM Mike Dunleavy has enjoyed an overflow of support from unlikely sources. (more…)

Tags: Basketball, Clippers, Lakers

NFL Trade Deadline is Upon Us

10/20/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Sports

Baseball may be America’s pastime, but it’s America’s most exciting league, the NFL, that is a realtime trend today. While the thrilling Monday night contest between the undefeated Denver Broncos and their rival San Diego Chargers may be a big reason for that, we’re willing to concede that today’s 4pm trade deadline is also driving searches up a notch. Football teams don’t typically swap superstars mid-season, reserving huge roster moves for the spring and summer months, though you wouldn’t know that from the way the Browns having been dealing established players like Braylon Edwards for some of coach Mangini’s past Jet favorites as of late. That’s not to say the in-season NFL trade doesn’t lack excitement, why just last year the Dallas Cowboys traded for the largely ineffective Roy Williams, and in 1987 the Rams sent RB legend Eric Dickerson to the Colts! (more…)

Sorry, Chicago: Rio Takes 2016 Olympic Bid

10/02/09 - Posted by Christopher Reinhard under International Affairs, Sports

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Lake Placid, Squaw Valley, Los Angeles; the list of American cities who have hosted their own star-spangled version of the modern Olympic Games is longer than most nations can say, at eight. But eight it shall remain, at least for now; Chicago has been eliminated from the cast of candidates for 2016’s summer session. In fact, the city’s bid was the first to be dismissed, leading to a hefty helping of social media chatter about what could have gone wrong.

The most influential person in America—Oprah Winfrey—showed her support for Chicago’s instatement as the home of the Games in Denmark this week, but even her powers were useless when it came time for the event’s committee to vote.

Tokyo was also eliminated from contention early, leaving Madrid and Rio De Janeiro in a face off that ultimately landed in the bejeweled hands of the latter. Get ready, Rio; you’ve got six years to lay on the sparkle, lay off the caipirinhas, and let Oprah cool off. See you in 2016.

Nike Squashes Vick’s Claim to Swoosh

10/01/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Sports

picture-1626 Nike may have been one of the last sponsors to cut and run on Michael Vick, but they’d like to make it abundantly clear that they’re anything but back on the the Philadelphia Eagles jack-of-all-bench positions endorsement bandwagon.

Mike Principe- one of Vick’s agents- announced yesterday that Vick had just signed a new deal with the Swoosh brand, Nike moved quickly to nullify the statement, admitting that they were giving the convicted felon some free gear, but weren’t exactly chomping at the bit to name a whole line of sneakers after the least popular player at the pound. Still if Nike should at one point feel the need to reverse their position on the matter we’ll be on the lookout for Nike Air Pine Riders or the Nike Air 3rd String QB - sounds like perfect prototypes for a new line of sneakers for benched athletes.

Good Things Come from Skipping Naptime

9/18/09 - Posted by Abdullah Saeed under Life & Culture, Sports, US

In the midst of all the madness going on in the news, we the viewing public deserve a little heartwarming story. The clip of a Phillies fan catching a foul ball and triumphantly handing it to his three-year-old daughter only to have her toss it right back has been all over the TV and the internets, giving us all an ‘awwww’ moment the likes of which we haven’t experienced since early Full House seasons. (more…)

Top Ten Things to Expect When Expecting to See Football

9/10/09 - Posted by Evan Kessler under Sports

Can you feel the excitement, OneRiot sports fans? No, we’re not talking about excitement for that lame nationally televised Tim McGraw and Black Eyed Peas concert this evening - we’re talking about the new NFL season upon us.

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As the Pittsburgh Steelers open defense of their Super Bowl XLIII Championship against the Tennessee Titans this evening at Heinz Field, things are bound to get quite ketchuppy. But before condiments and countless pints of blood are spilled on the gridiron in this first test of football wills, take a peek at the list of things we fully expect to come to fruition over the next 21 weeks of smash-mouth action. So lace up your cleats, give your fantasy team that pep talk they’ve been waiting for all summer, call heads during the coin toss and elect to receive, but most of all don’t flinch when you see the following 15 things go down this season. So without any further ado, OneRiot’s list of things to expect while you’re expecting to see some football:

1. Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards will reveal that he learned the secret to living a long healthy life from his great-grandfather Raiders owner Al Davis (aka Emperor Palpatine).

2. Joe Buck will mention Brett Favre’s name at least seventy-times times per game…even games in which he’s not playing.

3. Chad Ochocinco will not be able to stay off Twitter. He’ll be fined at least four times for tweeting during games. (more…)

FIFA Slams Chelsea with Recruiting Ban

9/03/09 - Posted by Christopher Reinhard under Sports

picture-1522 As if the pressure to compete in England’s Premier League weren’t high enough, now perennial competitors Chelsea will have to step it up even a notch higher. FIFA recently banned the team from signing any new players for the rest of 2009 and all of 2010 after reports surfaced that its staff had illegally approached French youth player Gaël Kakuta in hopes of signing him for the 2010 season.

The harshness of this penalty—along with a €780,000 fine for Kakuta—sets a new precedent in international soccer, warning other teams about the seriousness of utilizing prohibited recruiting techniques. While Chelsea has a right to appeal the restriction and likely will, it’s become clear that not only will the team suffer over the upcoming year, but Kakuta’s promising young career will take a hit as well.

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