It’s Madness!
| Thursday, March 20th, 2008 | --Sean |
As you can tell, I'm a day late with my post. It would have been about the start of March Madness, except I ended up spending all of my time making sure that we had everything done on our side to handle this time of year. But it's not too late to check out a few of the things we're working on!
First off, yup, it's the first day of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, and there's a rolling slate of first round games chugging along throughout the entire day. One particularly nice thing that we've done on Yahoo! Sports is to start intermixing live game scores with our editorial presentation. It's a huge advantage of websites over magazines/newspapers that they can be dynamic, so why not go all out? There's a whole Live Look column on the site top page, but you can also just see little score blurbs on just about any day intermixed in the sub-stories marked by LIVE tags, first developed by one of my coworkers for one of our hack days.
I wrote a widget a while back that's also pretty convenient for keeping track of games, but the main thing I wanted to bring up with that is that Yahoo! Widgets has excellent support for colorizing (tinting, essentially) images, making it really easy to offer color customization on your widget without very much work at all.
And finally, like I mentioned, it's not too late to get in on the fun! Even though most bracket games have locked down by now, we're offering a Second Chance game for the first time this year, which gives you a clean slate starting with the Sweet Sixteen. If you missed the deadline or just aren't happy because you picked Kent St. to win the Midwest Region, this one's for you.