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How was it for you? The Chipwrapper & Fansivu Euro2008 review
With Euro2008 over, and Spain worthy champions, I thought I'd take a quick look at how my two Euro2008 web prototypes fared during the course of the tournament. I built Euro2008 Fansivu, which attempted to track in real-time user-generated content which featured references to Euro2008. I also made a Euro2008 edition of Chipwrapper, my newspaper search engine service. Euro2008 Fansivu When I decommissioned Euro2008 Fansivu on Monday morning, the final page showed the strengths and the weaknesses that the...

Read the full post - Published July 3, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Euro2008 - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Watching Euro2008 on Zattoo in the heart of the BBC
As you may have spotted in my post about last week's TechCrunch / BBC debate at Broadcasting House, I attended it with one eye on what was going on in Basel. Thanks to wifi in the art deco Council Chamber where the debate was taking place, I was able to stream the first Euro2008 semi-final between Germany and Turkey silently on my laptop. The thing that struck me was that I used Zattoo to watch the game. At 7:40pm,...

Read the full post - Published July 1, 2008 in BBC, Euro2008, Football, Television, Web - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Reaching their goal? Marketing the Euro 2008 'Score for the Red Cross' campaign online
Tonight Euro2008 reaches a climax, with Germany facing Spain in the final, and tomorrow it will be time for me to retire Euro 2008 Fansivu and the Euro 2008 edition of Chipwrapper. Both have been carrying banner adverts for the tournament's official charity campaign - "Score For The Red Cross" I just wanted to write a little bit about how difficult that was to set up. Now, I'm not knocking the Red Cross here - they've raised nearly €0.5m...

Read the full post - Published June 29, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

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 - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008: The websites - Russia & Greece
As the Euro 2008 group stages have progressed, I've been reviewing the websites belonging to the Football Associations of the nations taking part. With today being the last day of group games it is the turn of Group D, and Russia take on Sweden tonight, whilst my old stomping ground Salzburg hosts eliminated Greece against quarter-final bound Spain. Russia and Greece are in the spotlight for my final Euro 2008 site reviews, two languages that stretch my ability to...

Read the full post - Published June 18, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Greece, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008: The websites - France & Italy
Since the Euro2008 draw was made, probably the most keenly anticipated fixture has been tonight's replay of the epic 2006 World Cup Final between France and Italy - but few could have predicted that at the end of tonight there was the certainty that one would be eliminated from the tournament - and the possibility that both could go. I've been conducting a review of the FA websites belonging to the countries taking part in Euro2008, and today I'm...

Read the full post - Published June 17, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web, Widgets - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Zattoo (slight return)
With the climax of the Euro 2008 Group phase rapidly reaching its end, I thought it might be an idea to look again at Zattoo, the streaming TV service that gathers together all of Britain's terrestrial channels into one broadband player. What intrigues me about the service is the potential clash between sports rights holders, broadcasters and Zattoo. A month or so ago I used the example of the UEFA Cup Final, where Zattoo's streaming of ITV1 was, to my...

Read the full post - Published June 15, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Television, Web - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Castrol's Euro 2008 Performance Index not performing on Google AdWords
As part of their sponsorship of Euro 2008, Castrol have developed a website which produces real-time performance statistics during the matches. Here, for example, are the figures from the Netherlands' obliteration of France last night. It looks like a very nice site - even if they can't spell 'defence' the European way. There is a downloadable Castrol widget for the tournament as well. It is built using Adobe's AIR, so in theory it should be cross-platform. I didn't download...

Read the full post - Published June 14, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Google, Web, Widgets - 3 comments so far   Add your comment 

Euro 2008: The websites - Sweden & Spain
In my series of posts looking at the national association websites of the teams involved in Euro 2008 I've so far looked at the sites that belong to Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Romania and Switzerland, Portugal, Turkey, Germany and Poland. That means I've not looked at any teams from Group D yet, and, if my ticket application had been successful with UEFA, I would have been back in my old home Salzburg preparing to watch defending European...

Read the full post - Published June 14, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008: The websites - Poland & Germany
At the conclusion of tonight's Euro 2008 matches we will be exactly halfway through the group stages of the tournament, and with one co-host already eliminated, anything other than a victory against Poland tonight could see the same fate befall Austria in Group B. On Matchday 2 I reviewed the websites belonging to the Austrian and Croatian Football Associations, before their opening fixture in Vienna. Today I'm looking at the other two teams in the group who are all...

Read the full post - Published June 12, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008: The websites - Portugal & Turkey

Published June 11, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008: The websites - Romania & the Netherlands

Published June 9, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - 4 comments so far   Add your comment 

Euro 2008: The websites - Austria & Croatia

Published June 8, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Introducing Euro 2008 Fansivu

Published June 7, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008: The websites - Switzerland & the Czech Republic

Published June 7, 2008 in Articles, Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Basel

Published June 5, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - 1 comment so far   Add your comment 

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Genève

Published June 4, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Introducing the Euro 2008 edition of Chipwrapper

Published June 3, 2008 in Chipwrapper, Euro2008, Newspapers, Search - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Zürich

Published June 2, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Bern

Published June 1, 2008 in Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Vienna

Published May 30, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Innsbruck

Published May 29, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

So what *was* on TV the last time England didn't reach the European Championsip?

Published May 28, 2008 in Euro2008, Football - 2 comments so far   Add your comment 

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Klagenfurt

Published May 27, 2008 in Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Euro 2008 host cities on the web: Salzburg

Published May 26, 2008 in Articles, Austria, Euro2008, Football, Web - No comments yet   Add your comment 

Not qualifying for Euro2008 - as it happened in Greece

Published November 23, 2007 in Daily Telegraph, Euro2008, Football, Greece, The Sun, The Times - No comments yet   Add your comment 

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