I might be swapping a 28-year relationship as a Manchester United fan for one with Sunderland FC. Granted SFC do have 6 former MUFC players on their team, and are led by arguably Britain’s best young manager Mr. Roy Keane.
Interesting to read about the anticipation of how the Twitter universe would handle the Obama running mate announcement on Friday night. The strategy for the Obama team was to get followers to sign-up to receive the announcement via text message and email. I wonder did the idea of a Friday night announcement inspire a few pre-announcement fueled beers from the tech savvy Obama fans.
A good article from Shaka Hislop from the Guardian newspaper. Sheds some light on the Ruud Gullit departure from the Galaxy. I think Shaka was playing for Newcastle back when Ruud was the coach there.
The NBC Olympics coverage appears to be working well. The video experience online has got me thinking though. I’m not sure how much more I’ve enjoyed or used it over watching on TV. Don’t get me wrong, the performance, picture quality and overall content selection is fantastic. The problem might be me?
NBCOlympics.com is a topic of many design conversations right now. One small thing that I wanted to mention was how they flag the live broadcasts on the homepage of the site.
Reading on Soccernet this morning about Thaksin Shinawatra’s (former Prime Minister of Thailand) fleeing Thailand via Beijing because of fraud and corruption charges. Apparently hes being borrowing money to pay wages at the club and they’re now talking about selling players to keep the club up and running. This guy only bought the club around 14 months ago. How does this happen to a club that’s been around since 1880?
Thisisnotajersey.com is an Adidas marketing based site focused on selling the new All Blacks rugby jersey. Couple of interesting things for me here …
We’ve just launched a new score strip on NFL.com. The functionality is similar to last seasons, the focus was to improve the visual and information design, and to get a maximum of 16 games to fit in the space. Looks like it’s survived the first weekend of preseason games.
I was browsing through the news headlines on the CNN homepage and noticed the t-shirt icons after some stories. Initially I had no idea what it was supposed to signify. Could it be related to Olympic team news? Could it be something to do with First Aid? I clicked through and ended up at CNN Shirt.
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