This is not a SaaS post, but it is about something I find extremely interesting…

Here’s the back drop story: I was born in Europe, and soccer (football as I like to call it) is naturally in my blood. The UEFA European Cup (Euro 2008) is going on right now, in fact it started yesterday, and naturally I like following it. However, following it is a problem. I work in Toronto, which is 5-6 hours behind the cities where the Euro is being played, and what this means is that the games are played from 12:00pm to 3pm Toronto time - my work time.

Obviously there are a ton of websites with live scores which I can check throughout the afternoon, but sometimes I’m out of the office and all I have is my cellphone. I found quite a few WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) websites with the latest scores, but they look bulky and full of links to different things that I don’t care about. So, being the geek that I am, I quickly wrote up a .NET application for a WAP website that screen scrapes the scores from ESPN in real time, cuts out all the nonsense and gives me a clear-cut (and low KB) live scoreboard.

If you happen to be in the same dilemma, I give you:
mobileEuro2008 (http://euro2008.warriorpoint.com). It lags a little with the refresh rate, I think I gotta fix the caching, so there are still a few kinks but hey it’s free! I can’t wait to try it out on Monday.

Enjoy!