Yahoo! has acquired Zimbra, “the leader in open source, next-generation collaboration and messaging software.” While you are on their site, do check out the demos – some pretty impressive stuff out there.
[tags]Yahoo, Zimbra, Exchange[/tags]
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Free live Premier League/ Champions League/ FA Cup SMS updates
Note 2: This post is no longer current. Refer this page for an updated list of users.
Note: I am in no way affiliated with Twitter or any of their partners. Twitter just happens to be the perfect medium for implementing something like this for free. With that disclaimer out of the way, let’s get down to the fun part.
For experienced Twitter users
Start following the user(s) of your choice. List of users at the end of this post.
For Twitter newbies
- Signup with Twitter, if you haven’t already. (What is Twitter?)
- If you wish to receive updates over SMS, verify your phone. Those outside the US, might want to check out this page as well.
If you wish to receive updates over IM, verify your IM id.24 Sep ’08: Seems Twitter has disabled IM support.- Start “following” the user(s) of your choice. List of users at the end of this post. Remember to turn on the notifications.
For general help on getting started with Twitter, including how to temporarily disable these alerts if you wish, go through the official Twitter FAQ.
Possible questions
Q) How often is an update posted?
A) Every time a player is booked/ sent-off or a goal is scored in the competition.
4 Jan ’09: Added kick-off, half time and full time updates as per Darren’s request.
Q) How do I track the scores via RSS?
A) Use the feed at the respective pages linked below.
Q) What’s with a different Twitter user for each team?
A) You might want to track the progress of selected teams only. Follow your favourite teams and you’ll be notified every time an event happens in the match involving those teams.
For example, if you start following Liverpool and there’s a Liverpool vs Aston Villa match going on, you’ll be notified every time a player is booked/ sent-off from either of those teams or when a player from either side scores a goal in that match.
Q) What’s with “All teams” Twitter user?
A) If you start following this user, you’ll receive an update whenever a player is booked/ sent-off or a goal is scored in any of the matches in the competition.
For those interested but not smart enough to figure this out by now, that means in effect, every event in the competition is posted as an update in 3 different Twitter users – that of the home team, the away team and the all teams user.
Q) What do the updates look like?
A) (Sample alerts only, I know Andorra and Estonia don’t play in the EPL!)
73′ Lima (Andorra) booked. Live score Estonia 1-1 Andorra.
87′ Silva (Andorra) scores! Live score Estonia 2-1 Andorra.
90′ Zelinski (Estonia) sent-off! Live score Estonia 2-1 Andorra.
Disclaimer
I am facilitating this service free of cost on as-is basis. Though I have tested it and everything should be fine, if you do not receive the updates or receive multiple updates or your cell-phone/ IM goes up in smoke because of this (i am just kidding, that won’t happen), please do not try to hunt me down.
Constructive feedback is welcome.
Start following
Arsenal
Aston Villa
Birmingham City
Blackburn Rovers
Bolton Wanderers
Chelsea
Derby County
Everton
Fulham
Hull
Liverpool
Manchester City
Manchester United
Middlesbrough
Newcastle United
Portsmouth
Reading
Stoke City
Sunderland
Tottenham Hotspur
West Bromich Albion
West Ham United
Wigan Athletic
[tags]EPL, Premier League, Football, Soccer, Twitter, Live, Scores, FA, Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, Derby County, Everton, Fulham, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Middlesbrough, Newcastle United, Portsmouth, Reading, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United, Wigan Athletic, SMS, IM, RSS, Sports, Champions League, CL, UCL, FA Cup[/tags]
Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Worst Website.
I went to a Papa John’s outlet last month and I must say I was impressed by the quality of their pizzas. Better Ingredients and Better Pizza than any I had before alright. So when it came time for my weekly fix of order-in Pizza, I thought I would give them a call. A couple of weeks later, I still haven’t been able to do that, because their website won’t show me their contact number or the menu. Except for the welcome page, everything else shows up as this:
This could well be a Mac only issue, but in this stane-age, that doesn’t cut it I’m afraid.
And Amitabh’s just confirmed Windows user can’t access the site either – some other error though.
I am not even talking about “fancy” stuff like taking orders online, albeit, that is now the standard in many parts of the world. You have got something like 10 pages on the site and even those links don’t work properly. Question for the site developers – what the hell do you need .Net for? From the look of things (none of the pages work, so I have no idea about the content, mind) this site could be done in plain, static HTML, without any frills.
Get your act (site) together Papa John’s.
PS – I admit, it wouldn’t have been too hard to locate the number of the closest outlet at, say Just Dial, but something like this leaves a bad taste in the mouth (pardon the pun) and puts you off the whole process. I ended up calling my regular Pizza joint instead.
[tags]Pizza, Papa Johns[/tags]