In it's simplest form, the footytube search bot works by running through millions of webpages each day, aggregating very niche specific and timely football related datasets. It's clever - it knows what teams have been playing, who plays for those teams, and what's being said about them. If Inter Milan won at the weekend, the bot knows about it. Heck, the bot even knows what Mourinho had to say about their victory. And unlike David Beckham, the bot definitely does know that football should never, ever, be called soccer ;)

This search intelligence is acheived by harnessing the power of a number of API's and partner services, and merging the data that is collected in an intelligible way that has never been seen before on a football site. The net result is a site that has the most wide-ranging and reliable football information possible, covering pretty much every league and football competition in the world without prejudice.

This level of detail and relevance, combined with unique community features, such as match result surveys and direct webcam video feedback, provides footytube visitors with a truly exciting user experience.

footytube is just getting started...

Many aspects of footytube are currently in closed beta mode. This includes video uploads, our unique and exclusive visual livescore service, and many aspects of the new forthcoming community features.

but wait... there's more!

The lovely people behind footytube don't want to keep all this hard work to themselves, oh no, that would just be plain selfish. As such, in the forthcoming months, we will be launching the openfooty API, geared towards empowering web developers with a truly open platform for making their very own footy based web applications. Needless to say, the service will be completely free.

As with elements of the current site, openfooty will initially launch in closed beta.


Our thanks to the following partners, websites and services that help to make footytube happen:

Facebook Connect - Sync all that lovely facebook stuff with your own userbase.
Meebo Community IM - The leading provider of IM and chat functionality.
Guardian Open Platform - The world's most powerful news API.
Yahoo Boss - Yahoo!'s open search web services platform.
DayLife Cookbook - A set of recipes you can use to jumpstart your news fiddling.
Global Sports Media - Provider of livescores and football results/fixtures. We LOVE these people.
Open Calais - Semantic analysis toolkit for helping a computer to understand the obvious.
Truveo Video Search API - AOL's rather fantastic video aggregation service.
BBC Backstage - A bunch of API's for accessing a range of BBC services.
Youtube API - It's youtube's video API, and it's wuvvly.
Amazon S3 - Really really really super big hard-drive space.
AM Charts - Coders of those pretty ickle charts you see dotted around footytube.
Apple - For making macs
Google Code - For so many other things :)