Earlier this week, Yahoo! released web services for accessing various types of search results. So far it seems to be pretty well received with lots of applications starting to appear. Two examples created by fellow Yahoos are: Firefox Search Sidebar (by Marc Abramowitz) is a nice Firefox sidebar extension that shows search results in a nicely compact format Buzzing the Yahoo! Search Web Services (by Rasmus Lerdorf) pulls results from Yahoo! Buzz (trends for top search terms), then finds related images and displays them in a collage format; check out an example where we look for the Oakland Raiders newest…
I was following Santa Clara’s game tonight in the WCC tournament and discovered Gametracker from Collegesports.com. Gametracker is a great web application, providing all the details you’d want from basketball games in progress. (Plus, it’s written in Flash and doesn’t require Internet Explorer.) One feature in particular is something I’ve thought of before: a graph of each team’s total points over time. The call it Gameflow and you can see it in the sample below (click for a full-size view of Gametracker). I did notice one problem, however: the x-axis scale always runs from 0 to 40 minutes, regardless of…