Thursday, June 12, 2008
Those Gameday Applications
Thursday, June 12, 2008 
Just a little curious, but I am wondering if those GameDay applications you can find on ESPN (like watching a baseball game, football, etc.) are simply running using an XMLSocket connection to a cloud someplace. That part is pretty understandable, but how the hell is the information getting in there, and seemingly so quickly?
Are there employees sitting there basically blogging data as quickly as they can to a server someplace, and that gets pushed out via socket? I know it's not real-time data, but it's pretty close sometimes.
I have sat and watched a Red Sox game and watched the GameCast just to see how off the online application was... and sometimes it got to be only off by about 30 seconds or so.
Right now I am watching a GameCast of Austria vs. Poland, and watching this stuff makes me really want to play around with something similar, but I have absolutely no way of gaining access to information like this. Not without a ton of effort just to prove a concept out.
Update:
Apparently in UK cliché speak from football commentators and players/coaches, "early doors" means "soon" or "early." I had no idea what the hell they were talking about until I asked a bloke who I work with in the office.
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Kenneth said...“It depends on the sport and the event. Typically there is someone on site at the game entering in data.
In some cases, the data can be automated using systems in place there at the event.
My company is doing a lot of live event based applications for people like the NBA, Nascar, PGA, etc and all have different ways of feeding in the data.”
