JD on EP

I just found out that Google Personalized Homepage has added a module for the World Cup. Now let's hope we dutchies will see the orange reach the finals and i'm sure i'll be watching them on the big screens downtown instead through Google Homepage :-)

If your in front of a pc then i dont think the bbc can be beaten.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/world_cup_2006/default.stm

or if you want to know when matches are played when your on the move and youve got a flash lite mobile then
http://www.mofactory.com/

looks like a good choice.

Newsvine World Cup Pick 'Em!

nyt: nyt tracker

In Switzerland a free newspaper just reported that they are going to show 3-D animations of the game highlights, guess what, it's built with Adobe Flash:

http://www.wm.20min.ch/

Best regards
Daniel

I don't know the details, but FIFA will probably have some kind of Flash-based broadcasting.

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/

When they sorted the teams between the groups, they have a cool application which would actually move each nation ballot into the appropriate group as they were sorted, followed by some text broadcasting. It was pretty nice, and I expect something of the sort for all "live" matches.

For random news of the kind (how to follow the WC online and stuff), www.worldcupblog.org has everything you could expect, including links to video and audio streams of all kinds.

Here are some:

TimeShift.tv (to record games and watch later)
http://www.shift.tv/stv/

Online community (flash powered)
http://www.largestonlinestadium.com/

Klinsimeter (flash, German only, tracks patriotism :)
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,420451,00.html

Game Schedule / Game Configurator (flash, German only)
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,418894,00.html

Live ticker (upper right of the page, not online yet of course, but they will "broadcast" all games through a flash client that pulls text in all few seconds)
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/wm2006/0,1518,,00.html

cbc.ca has an online worldcup tracker since the World cup 2002 in Korea.

Here's the link:

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/worldcup2006

Click on "Live Soccer Tracker" Icon.

DJ

Yahoo Widgets also has a World Cup widget for download--it's the current featured widget.

And FIFA's website is slashdotted already. Geez.

Thanks, folks! Two more here, from Techmeme listings this morning:

Danny Sullivan lists search engine portals, coverage, etc.

An unlisted writer at dailywireless.org collects details on media coverage, whether from original video feed or broadcast or satellite strategies, as well as voice and identity systems for the event.

WIRED has info on greymarket net-video access.

Ziff-Davis has info on the backend IT requirements for much of the coverage.

The UK BBC's site uses the Flash Player for a cute player ratings on-line democracy tool, Java for the world map, and Ajax for their world cup predictor

Finally, the 3-D Flash animations are out:

http://www.20min.ch/wm2006/animation/

www.3dgoals.com is pretty cool. It shows the highlight in 3D along with offside lines and ball trajectory

The Globe and Mail has a nice little Flash app:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/soccer/afp/WC2006/flash/en/index.html

I notice that the BBC's Flash-based fan voting system is currently the 11th most visited external link on the USA Today site. Who said Americans weren't into soccer? Perhaps they are now after the heroic draw yesterday with Italy!