Parade of the Heroes

October 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

BBC created a great mashup using ShoZu, Flickr, Twitter, and twibble to cover the Parade of the Heroes. This is an excellent demonstration how novel mobile technologies may help media companies to cover big sporting events in the future. Ollie Williams from BBC pointed out “… it allows us to tell the story of events [...]

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BBC mashup using blogs, maps, and twibble

August 14th, 2008 · 5 Comments

as a follow-up of a previous post describing how BBC Sport is using twibble at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, here’s a picture how the result looks like. They are aggregating their blog posts, twitter feeds, and other location data into an interactive map. A click on the map will take you to their site.

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Olympic Games coverage by BBC Sport using twibble

August 11th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Matt of BBC Sport is using twibble mobile to tweet the latests and greatest of the Olympic Summer Games in Beijing. He is even sending his GPS coordinates along with his tweets! You can exactly see where he is in a map. This is how it look likes in Google Maps (click on the map [...]

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