Thought this might interest folks here - it's a US site covering North American sport, but the concept is interesting.
Peter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Phillip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 12-Mar-2007 16:26 Subject: [mythtv-users] New Sports/TV API (find upsets, no hitters through 7, etc.) To: mythtv-users@mythtv.org Hey folks, my name is Mark and I'm running a site that Myth sports fans might find really interesting. I'm writing you folks because a plugin powered by our API would enable some really interesting functionality like: - Automatically start recording any game on my TV that goes into double overtime - Game score and time left directly in the program guide - Get alerts when an exciting game is happening on another channel The site is called areyouwatchingthis.com, and at its core is an engine that scours a sports feed hunting for the next "instant classic" in the making. By analyzing the score, the sport, the teams involved, and a bunch of other variables, it can rate a game and let you know if it's worth watching or not. In essence, it'll make sure you're not the loser at work the next day that missed the triple OT buzzer-beater cause you were doing laundry or something equally as lame. And best of all the XML-based API interaction is dead simple--you pass in a callsign (ESPN, SPEED, WCBS), and it passes back the game currently on that channel, the score, headline for the game preview news story, and among other things, a rating of how exciting the game is. I think for sports fans and non-sports fans alike, having a quick way to see if a game is really exciting or a complete blowout, would be really useful. The API is complete and powering items like a Firefox Addon and other widgets (areyouwatchingthis.com/widgets), but the API isn't released yet because I'm tweaking it as I come up with new features, and I'm willing to continue to add to it if it will make the integration with MythTV tighter. If anyone is interested, let me know and I can send you more information. Thanks much, Mark Phillip RUWT? areyouwatchingthis.com -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
