Beneath the surface of the World Cup website
My colleague John O'Donovan, who worked hard for us on the World Cup project along with everyone else in our Future Media & Technology division, has posted a blog which you might be interested in.
Archives for July 2010
Imminent relaunch of BBC News site
Steve Herrmann, the Editor of the BBC News website, has blogged about the imminent relaunch of that site.
We think users of the Sport site will be interested in his blog, because a lot of you also use our News site, and also because we are starting work on our plans to relaunch the Sport site.
It won't be exactly like the new News site, but the post does offer some insight into the direction we are heading in, as far as some aspects and features of the website go.
Now we are 10
What were you doing 10 years ago today? Here are some pointers that might give your memory a nudge...
France had just won Euro 2000, beating Italy in the climax to one of the great international football competitions. At Wimbledon we were witnessing the end of one era and the start of another, with Pete Sampras on his way to his seventh and final title, while Venus Williams was about to win her first.
I remember where I was on 3 July 2000 - holed up in a ramshackle, pre-fabricated adjunct to Television Centre (ah, the glamour of the media industry...) helping to put the finishing touches to the pages that would make up the first incarnation of the BBC Sport website.
