For the @sniffpetrol fans..
Discussion
Because I always seem to be busy or asleep when the F1's on the telly (and hence have to miss out on all the live tweets) I made this:
http://tweetgp.com
In a nutshell, it records tweets from people I think are entertaining during a race and plays them back in time with the race when you're ready to watch it on iPlayer / SKY+ / Freeview+ / whatever.
Disclaimer: I pay for the hosting for this, and there's no ads or any other way for me to make money from it. It's just a little personal project for me to use play with techy stuff
http://tweetgp.com
In a nutshell, it records tweets from people I think are entertaining during a race and plays them back in time with the race when you're ready to watch it on iPlayer / SKY+ / Freeview+ / whatever.
Disclaimer: I pay for the hosting for this, and there's no ads or any other way for me to make money from it. It's just a little personal project for me to use play with techy stuff
Fantastic idea - I virtually have to turn Twitter off over the weekends because I'm at some circuit or other & have a dozen odd races recording/to download.
no offence taken if you want to keep it a secret, but what's the technology behind this (say if somebody wanted to do likewise for other championships)?
no offence taken if you want to keep it a secret, but what's the technology behind this (say if somebody wanted to do likewise for other championships)?
There's no secret -- all I'm doing is sucking some data out of the public-facing Twitter programming interfaces - see http://dev.twitter.com. There's a bit of magic in storing and playing it back, but nothing a half-decent web developer couldn't copy with a bit of effort.
I wrote a blog post about it all here. (be warned though, it's geeky and probably rambles on a bit much)
I wrote a blog post about it all here. (be warned though, it's geeky and probably rambles on a bit much)
GHW said:
There's no secret -- all I'm doing is sucking some data out of the public-facing Twitter programming interfaces - see http://dev.twitter.com. There's a bit of magic in storing and playing it back, but nothing a half-decent web developer couldn't copy with a bit of effort.
I wrote a blog post about it all here. (be warned though, it's geeky and probably rambles on a bit much)
It's a brilliant concept - and probably applicable to quite a lot of other stuff aside from the GP. I wrote a blog post about it all here. (be warned though, it's geeky and probably rambles on a bit much)
GHW said:
There's no secret -- all I'm doing is sucking some data out of the public-facing Twitter programming interfaces - see http://dev.twitter.com. There's a bit of magic in storing and playing it back, but nothing a half-decent web developer couldn't copy with a bit of effort.
I wrote a blog post about it all here. (be warned though, it's geeky and probably rambles on a bit much)
Patent it or something! I wrote a blog post about it all here. (be warned though, it's geeky and probably rambles on a bit much)
Imagine the possibilities in the US, where sport and TV audiences are much bigger and lots of people attend the event, but record it AND watch it back on TV?
Patent it anyway, just in case.
FP1 is underway now, and available exclusively to PHers here:
http://tweetgp.com/play/turkeyp1/
(any suggestion that I'm using you lot as beta testers is totally unfounded
)
http://tweetgp.com/play/turkeyp1/
(any suggestion that I'm using you lot as beta testers is totally unfounded
)... aaand finally Turkey Quali is live on the home page. http://tweetgp.com
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