Web 2.0 Teams

One of the big buzz words about the world wide web currently is Web 2.0.

In simple terms this is about the recent changing trends on the internet. The internet used to be a place to market your company - a brochure on the web. It is now a place where a community can be created, content and functionality can be pulled from other websites and your content can be made available to other sources.

We'd like to think that Web Teams has always been a bit of a Web 2.0 type of a website.

1. No HTML skills, no problem
Web Teams would have nothing if it wasn't for the team sites. These are created by you.

For our part, we have produced the template site design and the code behind to allow you to enter your match reports and news items. This gives you a great looking football website without having to be a HTML genius.

But it's the power of the community of people who use and visit Web Teams that makes the site what it is. Since 1999, over 10,000 team sites have been created - we're very proud of this fact.

2. Sharing video content
You can now upload videos from your mobile phones to YouTube. You can embed these videos in your match reports and news items. You want to show your star striker scoring the winning penalty on the Saturday afternoon? Get your mobile phone or camera out, video it and have it up on your Web Teams site by Saturday night.

3. Your latest content wherever you want it
Our previous blog post Go Go Web Teams Gadget explained how you can get the latest news from your site on your Windows Vista Desktop or your Google Homepage.



4. Share any content on Facebook
One or two of you may have heard of a little website called Facebook that's doing quite well in the UK?

Well, you can click on a news item or match report or player page within Web Teams to post that content to your Facebook profile. Your Facebook friends can then get this information and comment on this.

Go Go Web Teams Gadget!

One Web Teams feature that visitors to your site may not be aware of is the Web Teams Gadget.

This feeds live news from your site to either your Windows Vista Desktop or your Google homepage.

The screenshot below shows the gadget working on Windows Vista. Click here to find out more about the Windows Vista Gadget



The screenshot below shows the gadget working on your Google homepage. Click here to find out more about the Google Gadget

The Football Season Starts Here

This weekend marks pretty much the start of the football season in the UK with the Charity Shield, the start of the main football leagues in England and Scotland.

At Web Teams we're going to stick our neck on the line in this blog post and predict the winners of each of the main leagues. If you think you can do better - then please add a comment to this post and we'll check in 9 or 10 months to see if anyone got their predictions correct.

English Premiership: Arsenal
English Championship: QPR
English 1st: Leeds
English 2nd: Darlington
Scottish Premier: Celtic

Web Team is going stronger than ever - so thanks to everyone for continuing to use the service. We've never had so many sites running at this stage of the year. This Blog is also getting a large number of hits, around 300 people a day read it - but please add your comments and make it more of a community (add comments link below this post).

We leave you with two YouTube videos:

1. English Premiership Goals of the Season 07/08


...and for those that don't like Ronaldo back heels and want to see "proper football" on "proper pitches", here are some great goals from the 1970's...

2. English Goals of the Season 1972-1982