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Parade of the Heroes

thilo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:40:36 +0000

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 in a complex, live, graphic environment for the first time. In the future, mobile technology like this could help us cover big sporting events (for example, Wimbledon or the Open golf) in new ways.”

Similar, Kevin Anderson from the Guardian uses twibble to twitter the latest and greatest from the US elections!

BBC mashup using blogs, maps, and twibble

thilo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:12:34 +0000

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.

Olympic Games coverage by BBC Sport using twibble

thilo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:16:47 +0000

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 to open Google Maps):

Even more impressive are Matt’s tweets in Google Earth. Add ‘http://api.twibble.de/statuses/user_timeline/bbcsport_matt.kml’ as a network link and click on a tweet to fly to China.

Or you can open twibble mobile on your phone and use the ‘Show in map’ function. Just follow @bbcsports_matt (http://twitter.com/bbcsport_matt).