StrikeIron Announces Mashup Madness! Hoops Contest
Contest challenges developers to showcase their skills with live college basketball data and win a flat screen TV
Research Triangle Park, NC – February 20, 2008 - StrikeIron Inc., the leading provider of Data as a Service (DaaS), today announced the NCAA hoops contest “Mashup Madness”. This contest is based on the newest addition to the StrikeIron Web Services Marketplace, The Sports Network Men’s College Basketball Web service. This XML-based API provides a breadth of real-time NCAA Men’s College Basketball data that is updated as often as every 60 seconds. StrikeIron is launching the contest to see who can create the most innovative basketball widget, mash-up or application that leverages this data.
The contest begins Friday, February 22, 2008 and ends Monday, March 31, 2008 with winners announced on April 7, 2008. All submissions will be judged by executives from The Sports Network, StrikeIron and Programmable Web. Winning applications must be innovative and easy to use, bug free, and extend the performance and quality of StrikeIron’s service. Prizes include an Apple iTouch for the “Best Mobile Application,” “Best Social Application” and “Best Widget” with the grand prize, a 42 inch HD flat screen television going to the “Best Overall Mashup.”
Entries must include data from The Sports Network NCAA Web Service from StrikeIron. Entries can also incorporate other StrikeIron Web Services or Web services from another source (see The StrikeIron Marketplace or Programmable Web for additional APIs to mashup). For details and submission information, please visit: www.strikeiron.com/hoops.
The Sports Network is the nation’s foremost international real-time sports wire service furnishing a multitude of content 24 hours a day, seven days a week. TSN’s Men’s College Basketball Web Service includes the following features:
- Comprehensive live data on NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball provided by The Sports Network
- Accessibility to key NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball statistics, news, scores, schedules, standings, injuries and poll data
- Track all data, by conference, team, or individual player
- Plug-and-play XML Web service makes it easy to integrate live college basketball data into a broad range of applications and Web sites
For more on this service, please visit www.strikeiron.com/TSNMensCollegeBasketball.