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SportsDo at the Marathon - 13th April 2008

Marathon 2008

This year SportsDo is working with a number of runners to bring you real-time, as it happens coverage of their progress.

Each runner will be carrying a SportsDo enabled phone and GPS device, which will be transmitting minute-by-minute updates of the runner's location back to SportsDo central. Here the information from all the runners is processed and plotted on a Google map so that you can see exactly where each runner is:

Marathon Tracking Page

 

SportsDo at the Marathon - 22nd April 2007

Marathon partners

In 2007 SportsDo worked with two teams from the Multiple Sclerosis Resource Centre and BBC London to bring you real-time, as it happens coverage of the two team's progress.

Each runner carried a SportsDo enabled phone and GPS device, which transmitted minute-by-minute updates of the runner's location back to SportsDo central. Here the information from all the runners was processed and plotted on a Google map so that anyone could see exactly where each runner was:

MSRC Tracking Page
BBC London Tracking Page

 

BBC Ski Sunday - 10th December 2006

BBC Ski Sunday

This ski season the BBC Ski Sunday team will be using SportsDo to add a new dimension to Graham Bell's camera runs down the race course.

Graham's speed during the course will be continually displayed on screen and various stats about the course will be displayed as he flies through the finishing line.

"We’re really excited to be using this amazing technology for the coming series of Ski Sunday"
Gabrielle Cook, Series Producer.

BBC: Ski Sunday

 

Meander Map - Nottingham - 18th November 2006

Meander Map

Adele Prince is setting off in a random direction from Nottingham train station with an unknown destination to be dictated by the people she encounters along the way. Using SportsDo, she will create a fully interactive Meander Map. Participants will be photographed and the pictures uploaded in real time onto a website where visitors can locate, track down and join in with the artist.

Nottingham Meander Map
Adele Prince
BBC: Power of Art
BBC: Meander Map Nottingham

 

Metro Ski Show - London - 18th October 2006

Metro ski show

Wow! We had an amazing time at the London Metro Ski and Snowboard Show.

People were truly amazed by SportsDo and several people even gasped as we demonstrated what the software and web portal could do!

A big thank-you to our friends at Microsoft for sponsoring our prize draw and also helping us man the stand for the five days. SportsDo loves Windows Mobile.

www.metroskishow.co.uk
www.windowsmobile.com

 

MEDC 2006 - Las Vegas - 10th May 2005

Microsoft MEDC

SportsDo was featured in Bill Gates' keynote during the launch of Windows Mobile 5.0 in Las Vegas.

Ours was the only non-Microsoft application to be featured.

Read the keynote transcript Opportunity Through Innovation



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