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Euro 2008: The websites - League table
Euro 2008 is now down to just 8 teams, but over the last two weeks of matches I've been surveying the websites of the original 16 finalists. There weren't any major surprises there. It seems that the larger and more prosperous nations had the best websites - and the big three of Germany, France and Italy seemed to be dominating in the online world in the way they have so often done in the past on the football field....

Read the full post - Published June 19, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Greece, Web

Euro 2008: The websites - Austria & Croatia
Euro 2008 kicked off yesterday with an opening match between Switzerland and the Czech Republic in Basel, and another game between Portugal vs Turkey in Geneva. Obviously I watched the games, but I've also had an eye on the websites of the football associations in the competing nations. Today's programme of games sees co-hosts Austria start their campaign in Vienna with a game against the team that ultimately knocked England out of Euro 2008 contention - Croatia.   Austria We...

Read the full post - Published June 8, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Vienna
In 30 days time the winners of Euro 2008 will be receiving the Henri Delaunay trophy in the Ernst Happel stadium. Before the whole tournament gets under way, I've been writing a series of posts looking at the official information being made available online by the eight host cities. So far I've looked at three cities in Austria. Salzburg, where I used to live, as well as Klagenfurt and Innsbruck. Today I'm looking at Austria's capital city, where the...

Read the full post - Published May 30, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Innsbruck
I've been doing a series of posts looking at the online information available about the host cities at Euro 2008, which kicks off in just over a week's time. So far I've covered Salzburg and Klagenfurt in Austria. Today it is the turn of Innsbruck, where Spain, Sweden and Russia will be playing matches as part of Group D. Innsbruck The official Innsbruck city site has content about the tournament in English and German. There is also a site...

Read the full post - Published May 29, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Klagenfurt
I was looking yesterday at the information available online about Salzburg hosting three games at Euro 2008. If my plans to get tickets had gone right, as well as two matches in Salzburg, where I used to live, I would have been going to see Germany play Croatia in Klagenfurt. As part of a series of posts looking at the information the Euro 2008 host cities have made available online, here is what I would have found if I'd...

Read the full post - Published May 27, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Salzburg
If the random number generator employed by UEFA in their ticket ballots had been calibrated a bit differently, right now I would be in the last stages of planning my trip back to Salzburg in Austria to see some matches at Euro 2008. I put my ticket application in before the final draw was known, and, as it turned out, I would have had tickets to see two matches featuring my adopted homeland of Greece. But it wasn't to...

Read the full post - Published May 26, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web

The long (monkey) tail of YouTube
I got an email alert from YouTube a while back, informing me that someone had left a comment on my YouTube clip of a monkey teasing a pig which we saw in Salzburg Zoo last winter. XXRevolveXX had said: "that monkey needs a life" I was just in the middle of composing some witty retort about pots / kettles and the fact that XXRevolveXX had frittered away a minute watching the monkey with no life, when I noticed something I...

Read the full post - Published March 14, 2008 in Austria, YouTube

I think I've Schmapped myself
I noticed this in the cartoon strip of one of the London free-sheets at the tail-end of last week, and wondered whether Schmap had actually paid for some product placement, or whether the whole thing was instead a bit of a co-incidence. I however, have not been paying for the product placement of my Creative Commons licenced Flickr photographs within their Schmap guides, which now seem to have grown to cover most of the major cities in Europe I've visited....

Read the full post - Published October 22, 2007 in Austria, Flickr, Web

Will virtual representations of sporting events become part of the online rights economy?
Having been in Austria at the start of the tournament, and in Greece for the conclusion, neither of which are renowned for their love of the game, following the Cricket World Cup has been somewhat problematic. The BBC's Test Match Special podcast is available to me, but sadly the live commentary is firmly locked behind the BBC's GeoIP firewall. So I've been casting my eye around the rest of the web for coverage. Like the BBC, the Guardian has been...

Read the full post - Published April 5, 2007 in Austria, Games, Google, Greece, Web

T-Mobile hot-spots in Austria suffer from poor translation
I posted earlier about my experience of using a localised survey product at Salzburg's airport last week. Whilst I was there I also bought an hour of internet access via a T-Mobile hot spot, and experienced a little glitch in the English translation of the Austrian version of their service. I was quite happily browsing away, when my copy of Firefox was brought to a halt by an urgent dialogue box. Your time has run out! The thing is,...

Read the full post - Published March 5, 2007 in Austria, Localisation, Web

Patchy interface localisation in Salzburg Airport's touch-screen customer satisfaction survey

Published March 5, 2007 in Austria, Localisation, Usability

Google's anti-American stance on spelling the Habsburgs will upset Conservapedia

Published February 28, 2007 in Austria, Google, Web

Investigating the history of witches in Salzburg

Published February 23, 2007 in Austria, Ghost Walks, Other

Viewing the Tehran conference about the Holocaust from Austria

Published December 14, 2006 in Austria

New job with Sony in Austria

Published September 19, 2006 in Austria, Sony