Being an F1 fan, I started a small tipping competition last year at work. The basis for the comp is that you tip your top three drivers. You earn what ever points they collect – the person with the highest number of points wins the round, and the person with the most points for the season wins that – which is half the money collected over the year. Nice.
So this year I wanted to automate the tipping process to prevent me getting a rush of emails/sms before each race. I figured there’d have to be a web based solution for this problem, but I had no idea where to start. So I looked a tipping competition scripts for Joomla (a CMS I have just started to play with). Everything was for footy – pick a winner from a choice of two. I needed to be able to pick three people from a list of 24. Nothing came close.
Then a mate suggested a survey. That’s a great idea, I thought to myself. Simply ask a multiple choice question from a drop down box three times. Easy. So I start searching via Google. All the big names in surveys who offer free version don’t allow you to export the results. All I could seem to do was copy them from a webpage. Fuck that – I was trying to make this easy for myself!
And this is where twitter comes in. An astute business called SurveyGizmo is busy trolling tweets for the term ‘survey’. Up comes my question to the twitterverse about how to do what I am wanting to do. Quick as a flash (and I mean with 30 minutes or so) I have a tweet from them saying they can do what I want. So checked it out and its great – it does everything I want!
The power of twitter has proven it self yet again!
And if you are interested you can check out the F1 Tipping comp here: http://eepurl.com/cGp86
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