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Andrew
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3/16/2007  10:33 AM
I enjoy reading the NY Sports blogs....more so than the articles these days. They just seem to be different than the generic articles that all seem to be the same. I decided to build a small application in my spare time that categorizes the blogs for most major NY teams.

Check it out and let me know what you think. Feel free to make suggestions. Its still in its early phases and changes are planned. It may be unavailable at times when I am making updates to it.

Basics: Allows you to search by date and team and navigate to the blog entires. Entries are polled every 20 mins.

Requires: Browser with Flash 9 (its free), a decent sized monitor.


http://www.ultimateknicks.com/SportsFeed/App/SportsFeed.html
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Andrew
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3/16/2007  10:39 AM
If its not clear on how to goto a blog entry:

- Click the desired row in the results grid.
- Click on the 'Browse to Selected Item' on the bottom right.
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3/16/2007  2:39 PM
Andrew, this thing is pretty cool. I haven't really been big into the blogs but this might make me read them since they are all in one place. Nice little tool.
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3/16/2007  3:00 PM
thats really cool and I plan on using it a lot!! Especially if you let me add my own choice of feeds.

Out of curiosity, what rss reader do you guys use?
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Andrew
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3/16/2007  3:23 PM
Thanks....going to add a place to make suggestions of feeds to add....and possibly incorporate favorites. Possibly expand the feeds to include more teams.

Silver....I don't use a reader.
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Andrew
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3/16/2007  4:21 PM
Silver...were you thinking sports blogs or other types of blogs?
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Silverfuel
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3/16/2007  8:22 PM
Posted by Andrew:

Silver...were you thinking sports blogs or other types of blogs?
I was actually thinking we can suggest sports blogs (not necessarily NYC area team blogs) in general that provide high quality content. I have a friend in Texas who sends me emails everytime Cuban mentions the Knicks on blog maverick etc. So I was thinking if we add rss feeds from stuff like that in your app, it will search for "Knicks," or "yankees" etc. I totally missed the point of the NYC area blogs. Also, it will be ridiculous to search all RSS feeds for strings.

I absolutely love the user interface man, its really slick.
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3/16/2007  8:39 PM
Andrew, I know nothing about coding so excuse my naivete, but is this something that can be ported to the Knicks board as a general Search Function?
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3/19/2007  10:28 AM
Blue...it could be turned into a forum search mechanism. I'm holding off on doing anything with that until we decide what we are going to do about the forum software in general (keep it or replace it with something new).
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3/19/2007  11:13 AM
Posted by Andrew:

Blue...it could be turned into a forum search mechanism. I'm holding off on doing anything with that until we decide what we are going to do about the forum software in general (keep it or replace it with something new).


Ya know, my first reaction was excitement at the thought of a makeover worthy of this, the best of all Knicks forums.

But then I had a vision of a glitsy new "kid friendly" site selling ad space and requiring heavy handed moderating... I broke out in a sweat and started to hyperventilate. It was a bad flashback and I'm still trying to talk myself down...

We can just leave things as they are and I'll be quite happy!
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3/20/2007  9:19 AM
Andrew- this is a killer app. Saves me from having to go 5-6 sites to check for updates. Its espcially helpful during FA and Trade deadlines when these blogs tend to break a lot of the news. Great job!
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3/20/2007  11:33 AM
Thanks VDesai.

FYI, I made a small change last night that allows you to double click the blog entry in the grid to navigate to it.

I'm surprised more Yankee fans are not reading through the blogs
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3/21/2007  2:32 PM
Wow ...I really like what you did Andrew...Must have been a lot of hard work, but it makes it easy to see all the NY blogs
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Posted by MrsC:

Wow ...I really like what you did Andrew...Must have been a lot of hard work, but it makes it easy to see all the NY blogs

LOL. haha. AAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAAH.

Good one.

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3/21/2007  5:39 PM
Posted by martin:
Posted by MrsC:

Wow ...I really like what you did Andrew...Must have been a lot of hard work, but it makes it easy to see all the NY blogs

LOL. haha. AAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHHAAH.

Good one.

And welcome to Ultimate.

So when does the kid get an account?

PS: Nice work Andrew!
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3/22/2007  9:24 PM
thanks eVil.

Added some Portland blogs for a different perspective.
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