Posts Tagged ‘Spain’

twittipp: A try, filtering tips during the Euro08 with twitter.

Friday, July 4th, 2008

I am often starting online-tipp-games under my friends due to several events (f.e. www.sugarmelon.com/euro08/), if there are elections or there are sport-events. Usually I am having special created “HTML-pages” with input-fields, checking, and this whole HTML-Request-Resonse-Registration-Thing. I created Awareness usually with E-Mail, Skype or other messaging-systems. I wanted to find other possibilities.

I created www.sugarmelon.com/twittipp

Avoiding media-breaks and staying in one medium.
I asked myself “Why having a ‘media-break‘?” and “Why jumping from an e-mail or a messaging-tool to a webpage?” I was searching for the shortest way in delivering and getting information within the same “medium”.

The solution was twitter: Request and Response in one medium.
I implemented a small application, based on twitter. I sent out a twitter-message, that user should send their result to “Germany-Spain” and tag it with #euro08, #twittipp or directly to @twittipp. This test was fullfilled within a small target-group in Vienna.

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Implementation and some special cases: Avoiding double and impossible votes.
I used PHP, twitter-functions and summize, for filtering the responses. I tried to catch special cases like

  • avoiding double-votes,
  • impossible votes, which are >10 goals on each side and
  • giving an overview about the average results/tipps.
  • filtering tipps and automatically recognition of winning-team (f.e. 4-2 for spain will be transformed into GER-ESP 2:4).

One of my targets was also getting in dialog and touch with the user and send him a twitter-message back.

Twitter overtook the registration-process, I had access to username, etc. Twitter also managed datahandling and datamining. Twitter is working as a powerful multi-dimensional entry-field.

Resume: The test worked wonderful.
The test worked perfectly, although, not a lot of people attended this game (10). The filter via summize worked, although there was a breakdown for more than three hours sunday morning.

Twitter-User josue from Spain was amazed, that his tipp was filtered to sugarmelon.com/twittipp by fortune and noticed this on his twitter-feed:

twittipp by sugarmelon.com

There have been some questions, why I do not have implemented such a thing before and only at the last game. The answer is clear: I was afraid about spending too much time with twittipp during the Euro. I know myself… I would have spent day and night with this application…

Next time again. Thanks for testing and participating!

Euro08: sugarmelon in talk with Hans Krankl, Toni Polster and Herbert Prohaska.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

So. Thuesday night I was at a concert from some austrian singers (Fendrich, Ambros, Willi Resetarits) - further infos in my blogentry. Those three singers were featured by Hans Krankl and Toni Polster, both great football-legends in Austria. There was also Herbert Prohaska in the Stadthalle in the audience.

My interview-know-how is very poor, I know… I will improve, this is interesting. But…, I was very happy to get in contact with Herbert Prohaska, Toni Polster and Hans Krankl and asking them, who will win the Euro 2008. Thanks for your time… Thanks to twitsay this works very fine.

More Euro08 Overflow on sugarmelon.com/euro08

 

Hans Krankl’s tipp: Spain
http://twitsay.com/prrz41

sugarmelon: So, neben mir steht der Hans Krankl…

[...]

s: Europameisterschaft. Morgen Deutschland gegen Türkei. Was ist denn Dein Tipp.
Hans Krankl: Mein Tipp ist Deutschland.
s: Und Russland gegen Spanien?
HK: Spanien.
s: Finale Deutschland Spanien und…
HP: …Spanien.

 

Toni Polster’s tipp: Germany
http://twitsay.com/ipwfjh

sugarmelon: So, Hallo, neben mir steht der Toni Polster. Wir sind gerade am Konzert… Wie hat denn Dir das Konzert gefallen.
Toni Polster: Ja es war eine tolle Veranstaltung, ein tolles Konzert. Die Leute toben. Nochimmer. Obwohl schon weit nach Mitternacht. Es war eine super Veranstaltung. Ich hoffe am Sonntag beim Elton John bekommen wir die ganze Halle noch voller hier.
s: Ich war überrascht, dass du hier gesungen hast. War gar nicht so schlecht!
TP: Ja, können 40000 Käufer irren?
s: So, gemma zum Fussball. Deutschland-Türkei ist morgen. Wer wird denn gewinnen?
TP: Ja ich habe immer gesagt, Deutschland wird Europameister und dabei bleibe ich.
s: Finale Deutschland gegen -
TP: Ja egal, Deutschland im Finale…
s: Danke Toni Polster, schönen Abend noch.
TP: Passt, Seavas!
s: Ciao, baba.

 

Herbert Prohaska’s tipp: Spain
http://twitsay.com/kiruyx (58 sec.)

sugarmelon: SO, Hallo. Herbert Prohaksa steht nun neben mir. Wir sind nun am Konzert…
Herbert Prohaska: Ja, alle haben bis jetzt ganz gut gesungen. Ja, es war sehr schön.

[...]

s: Jetzt ist die Europameisterschaft… Herr Prohaska, wer wird denn ihrer Meinung nach Europameister?
HP: Ja wissen tu ichs nicht, aber ich habe vor der Euro auf Spanien getippt. Die sind noch im Semifinale und ich hoffe, die lassen mich nicht hängen.
s: schauts morgen aus - Deutschland gegen die Türkei?
HP: Naja der große Favorit ist Deutschland, weil die Türken viele Verletzte und Gesperrte haben. Folgedessen sind sie ganz ganz großer Favorit und müssen eigentlich ins Finale kommen.
s: Also Finale: Deutschland - Spanien.
HP: Ja, Und wenn ichs nicht errate, dann hätt ich nichts gegen Deutschland - Russland, weil die Russen super spielen.
s.: Danke Herr Prohaska!