Posts Tagged ‘tournament’
tweetBracket: A Dead Simple Way To Share Your March Madness Picks
Every year, we come across dozens of new applications looking to capitalize on March Madness, when millions of basketball fans across the country try to predict the outcome of the heated 65-team NCAA tournament. One new app that’s launching today is called tweetBracket, which gives users an extremely easy way to share their picks with their Twitter followers. The application, while basic, is notable because it’s a preview of the technology being built by a Y Combinator startup called 140bets.
Using tweetBracket is simple. You sign in to Twitter using oAuth, and are presented with a random matchup from today’s games. Click the team you think will win, optionally tweet your choice to your followers, and repeat. The game keeps track of your picks throughout the tournament, and prizes are being awarded to the people with the most correct predictions for each round.
tweetBracket is built off of the platform that 140bets is currently developing, which makes it easy to build apps around a binary interface (the company has also put together a similar app for American Idol fans called Tweet Idol). CEO Jason Wilk says that the platform is still early in development, but that eventually it will be used for more real-time interaction (for example, you might keep it open as you watch a game and predict whether or not a player is going to make the free throw he’s about to take).
FIFA explains why it’s so anti-technology: Wants to keep things equal, maintain human element
Sepp Blatter (left), the FIFA president, has explained why there won’t be goal-line technology at this year’s World Cup , saying he wants the sport to maintain a “human element” and that all levels of soccer, from 6-year-old kids to open-goal-missing Gonzalo Higuaín of Real Madrid, need to be played with the same rules.
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FIFA explains why it’s so anti-technology: Wants to keep things equal, maintain human element
Final Four to be shown in 3D theaters
Mark Cuban and Bud Mayo have been pushing the current generation of 3D long before the current generation of 3D had even been pitched as the next big thing to consumers by TV manufacturers. Cuban and Mayo (sounds like a delicious sandwich) aren’t trying to get you to watch 3D television in your home, though. They actually want you to leave the house
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Final Four to be shown in 3D theaters
Tim Berners-Lee advocates for open data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks at TED2010 about the value of open data.
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Tim Berners-Lee advocates for open data
CrunchDeals: Unreal games for 15 percent off at GOG this week
Just a heads up for those of you looking for a quick hit of nostalgia.
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CrunchDeals: Unreal games for 15 percent off at GOG this week
Elecom’s tiny ‘nanoSSD’ SATA drive is cuter than all the Jonas brothers combined
How adorable is that little solid-state SATA drive right there? You just plug it right into the SATA port on your motherboard! Look at you, little man, with all your data! You’re holding an entire operating system — yes you are! Yes you are! Available in Japan from Elecom, the “nanoSSD” comes in 8GB and 16GB capacities and includes an auxiliary power cable, just in case. Read speeds are 75MB/second and write speeds are 30MB/second, so you’re pretty much paying for cuteness, not capacity or performance.
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Elecom’s tiny ‘nanoSSD’ SATA drive is cuter than all the Jonas brothers combined
Chipotle Ordering iPhone app means less talking, more eating delicious burritos
If you’ve never eaten at Chipotle , you don’t know what you’re missing. Really - make it a priority. They’re the only restaurant I’ve ever gone out of my way to contact, just to say “Hey! You should really open up a location in my town”.
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Chipotle Ordering iPhone app means less talking, more eating delicious burritos
Shadow Complex achievements splayed out for all to see
I don’t quite see the appeal of Epic and Chair’s upcoming XBLA title Shadow Complex that was announced at E3 , but I guess it’s because I think of Gears of War and Unreal Tournament whenever Epic comes up. Nevertheless, August 19th is fast approaching and Epic revealed the achievements today. Hit the jump for the latest gameplay trailer and the 12 achievements for Shadow Complex
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Shadow Complex achievements splayed out for all to see