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RWW Special: MLB.com Challenges Students to Reinvent Web Sports
Nov 10th
Suppose you had an opportunity, along with five or six of your closest friends and colleagues, to present one pitch for a stunning new concept in Web sports entertainment. Your audience would be a group of venture capitalists who have money to burn, and will invest it in someone – maybe one of 16 other groups. Your toolset could be anything the Web has to offer. But your presentation time is in 14 hours.
You’ve seen how the Web has been transformed in just the past year by JavaScript libraries, HTML5, new development environments, faster-evolving browsers. Maybe you have an inside lead on something your colleagues don’t. Today on RWW, we’re going to do something a bit differently. We’re going to follow a real-life story as it happens, of 72 Syracuse University students who’ve been challenged by the producers of the official Web site of Major League Baseball to reinvent online sports overnight. Literally.
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Carmelo Anthony center, Syracuse University campus, 6:30 pm ET November 16 – It gets dark earlier now, which may be just as well. There wasn’t much in the way of daylight this particular day, as though someone had pulled a damp comforter over the sun.
Inside this building, members of the nation’s #5-ranked college basketball team are striding down the hallways as though their legs could move the floor from beneath them. It doesn’t look at first like the proving ground for Web technologies in the modern world.
Then when you enter the VIP banquet hall to see the university is feeding 72 of its brightest students, many of them Information Management majors, you remember it doesn’t take much free food to fuel the future. Here student contestants get their initial instructions from the very popular Information Studies professor, Jeffrey Rubin.
Josh Frost is one of three Syracuse alumni who comprise the leadership team at MLB.com, the New York City-based sports multimedia site. MLB.com is known as a Web functionality innovator in its own right, and was one of the first to give prominent support to Microsoft’s Silverlight platform. Then three years ago, the service made news when it shifted its Web video support over to Adobe Flash. MLB.com definitely follows the cusp of the trends, and has made the right shifts in tactics when it needed to.
Could the next shift come from one, or a handful, of these students? This is actually not a rhetorical question. As one of the judges in this year’s MLB.com Challenge, Frost will be playing the role of one of the VCs. Although he’ll be coaching students throughout the night tonight with tips on how to organize ideas and make presentations that turn heads, at just before noon tomorrow, when about the only place folks really want to venture is to bed, will be listening to funding pitches from development teams with names like Hashtag Swag, Saltine Warriors, and Evil Hemp-ire.
The students here knew they’d be developing a Web project, but until dinner tonight, they didn’t know what form their deliverables would need to be in. Now after assistant basketball coach Mike Hopkins peeking in for a pep talk, Frost gives the contestants their assignment. First, for some, wake up. It’s only 7 o’clock. Next, they need to plan an innovative program around improving the existing MLB.com. It can use client- or server-based technologies, or a mixture of the two. Deliverables, including source code for use in proofs-of-concept, must in the end be deposited in designated Dropbox accounts.
9:30 pm, Hines Hall – Frost and his MLB.com colleagues, UI engineer Joe Kanakaraj and their boss, front-end development director Mike Hoffman, set up what they had hoped would be a “rapid-fire” discussion session. Already anticipating the workload, some of the nation’s future Web development leaders are practicing showing signs of strain.
The session officially dismissed after 12 minutes. But about a dozen shrewd students stayed around after most everyone else left, to ask questions of the MLB.com experts one-on-one, to get a feel for their mindset, and yes, to soften up the judges for the coming morning.
ReadWriteWeb will continue our coverage of the MLB.com Challenge Friday morning. Although the events from that point on will be timestamped, they’ll be delayed for about six hours on purpose, so as not to give competitors in this challenge advance information about other teams.
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Multilingual SEO announces Halloween special on SEO link building – The Australian Eye (press release)
Oct 22nd
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Multilingual SEO announces Halloween special on SEO link building
The Australian Eye (press release) By PressRelease StaffWriter The Multilingual SEO company, Golden Way Media announces a 10% discount on search engine optimization (SEO) link building and PPC management services. This is a way to express our appreciation to our prospective clients and … |
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Link-Assistant.Com Brings SEO PowerSuite’s Little Known Features into Special … – Benzinga (press release)
Oct 21st
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Link-Assistant.Com Brings SEO PowerSuite's Little Known Features into Special …
Benzinga (press release) The SEO software provider highlights eight often missed out productive ways of boosting online presence. Link-Assistant.Com, the top-flight SEO software developer and the mastermind behind SEO PowerSuite, comes out with a new project to offer customers … Link-Assistant.Com Brings SEO PowerSuite's Little Known Features into Special … |
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A Special Logo For Google’s 13th Birthday – Mazol Tov!
Sep 27th
Happy Birthday Google! Today, Google turned 13 years old, the day a boy becomes a man, at least in Judaism. To celebrate the important birthday, Google has a special logo with a cake, birthday hats, and looking like an old fashion child’s birthday party setting. Historically, there was some…
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SEO Special Offer – Business in Berkshire (press release)
Aug 3rd
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SEO Special Offer
Business in Berkshire (press release) Send an email to events@businessinberkshire.co.uk with 3 key phrases you'd like to fly higher for on the search engines. We'll review your phrases, offer some feedback and agree 3 that you are happy with. If by the end of September we have got web … |
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What Time Is The Royal Wedding? Google Tells You With Special Box
Apr 28th
Royal Wedding madness had descended upon Google. Do a search for royal wedding, and you’ll be treated to a special box telling you the time it happens in your location. The image above shows the box, with the time of 3am Pacific Time tomorrow, because that’s the time zone I’m in….
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A ReadWriteWeb Special Series on Virtualization
Mar 29th
Virtualization is so common now that it is rare to find an enterprise that is untouched by the technology.
It is starting to appear as organically as any technology does when people need it to get the work done. There may be any variety of virtualization technologies on the desktop, the server and even mobile devices.
Our series will explore how virtualization is being used across the IT landscape, in big companies and small. We could list any industry and you’d find any number of examples for how it’s being adopted. What we will do is illustrate how virtualization is being applied and how you can find new ways to use the technology within your organization.
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Topics we will explore as part of the series:
- Desktop virtualization: How is the new app landscape affecting desktop virtualization? How is it viewed within the context of larger efforts across the enterprise?
- Business critical apps: How business apps are deployed in a virtualized environment is a question that’s faced by any enterprise. We’ll look at some of the latest trends we are seeing in the marketplace.
Virtualization is a big topic. We hope you will find new opportunities and more context for the issues that are still evolving on the desktop, in the network and the all important applications that sit on top.
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