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Get updated Cricket Match Schedule Calendar

Brajeshwar — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:53:09 +0000

We’ve been working on some exciting features at oCricket. The score have been updated at the back-end to be more robust and you can expect a more powerful API pretty soon. In the meanwhile, we’ve added a Calendar (.ical) for all International Cricket Matches. You can add it to any of your Calendar application (iCal, Outlook, Google Calendar, etc). The link to your WebCal link is in your Profile (check UTILITIES).

Meanwhile, you can continue to invite your friends via your Gmail, Yahoo, Rediff account (more options will be added as we go).

Free score update for Indian and American phone numbers

Brajeshwar — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:44:46 +0000

We’ve updated your profile feature so you add Phone numbers where we can send you free Cricket score updates via SMS (and may be text-to-speech for USA phones). Go ahead and update your profile with your phone number if you wish to get Free Cricket Score to your phone.

Harnessing Twitter power for Cricket

Brajeshwar — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:21:03 +0000

We’ve released the special Cricket Talk, an enhanced Twitter stream powered by user suggested Cricket related keywords.

The app is powered by the user, which means, users suggest a keyword and is voted by other users. Once a keyword becomes hot enough, we track it and is relayed for other users to enjoy the Twitter Experience on a single interface where others can reply there, relayed back to their Twitter timeline. A user can also vote against a keyword and we stop tracking it goes below its hotness level.

Enjoy the Cricket Talk. Tell us what you feel, where can we improve to make your Twitter-Cricket experience a better one. We’re expecting that Cricket Talk will be a way easier way to track Cricket on Twitter and be amongst other Cricket fans across the globe.

So, go ahead and Talk Cricket.

Note: Please keep the keyword suggestion to Cricket related ones (I know you can suggest anything!) And yes, we use Twitter’s brand new OAuth, so you won’t have to disclose your Username/Password to our application.

New Feature: Live cricket scores and secure email addresses

Baishampayan Ghose — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:01:27 +0000

We are happy to announce that oCricket now has live cricket scores of international matches! The scores can be seen on the top right hand corner all pages on oCricket and they look like the one below:

But don’t you think it would be cool if you could put live cricket scores on your website/blog too? We have done exactly that. Now you can easily add a simple JavaScript one-liner to your website and get live Cricket scores. Additionally, we also have a Wordpress plugin for all you Wordpress users. Head over to toys.ocricket.com for the details.

We have also made a small change which stops spammers from stealing your Email address from your profile page — your Email address is now shown only to your friends and taken some measures in making your Email completely spam proof (hint: the Email that you see on your profile is an image).

Enjoy, and watch out for some really awesome features in the very near future

Vote for oCricket at KillerStartups

Brajeshwar — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 05:02:25 +0000

Very recently, we submitted oCricket to KillerStartups for a review and they’ve reviewed us. Please Vote for oCricket at KillerStartups.

KillerStartups reviews established and successful websites as well as new and upcoming internet startups. KillerStartups.com is a user driven Internet startups community. It’s intended for entrepreneurs, investors and bloggers to stay updated on up-and-coming Internet startups and successful websites.

Pre Public-Beta

Brajeshwar — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:08:34 +0000

oCricket sports a new Design and an improved user experience. Check it out for yourself to experience the new features, experience, etc which besides the new Design includes the ability to add people as your friend, see their content (articles, photos and videos).

We’ve also moved totally to the Amazon AWS Cloud – EC2, S3 and Cloudfront.

oCricket on Alltop

Brajeshwar — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:06:20 +0000

We got on to Alltop’s Cricket section, starting from the bottom. Thanks to Guy Kawasaki and Neenz Faleafine for assisting us with the inclusion.

“Alltop is an ‘online magazine rack’ of popular topics. They update the stories every hour. Pick a topic by searching, news category, or name, and they’ll deliver it to you 24 × 7. All the topics, all the time.”

The Cricket Feeds

Brajeshwar — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:52:09 +0000

We’ve few more days to go before we open up the new UI and the whole new site to public. Nonetheless, our Feeds are totally open and finalized.

If you wish to stay ahead of the Cricket curve, subscribe to the feed of your choice.

Articles (or pick just the Excerpts)
Links
Photos
Videos

Cricket websites ranked Index

Brajeshwar — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:37:56 +0000

Here are few Cricket Websites at RankedIndex, do add more.

Beta Phase I

Brajeshwar — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:42:52 +0000

We just seeded the Beta Phase I of oCricket to very few selected Beta Testers. If you feel that you should be in the beta, do request for an Invite on our site.

Why oCricket?

Brajeshwar — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:31:36 +0000

I had always wanted to do something about Cricket but could never do it more because of my work schedules and my own lack of focus with the topic. Somewhere during late 2006, I finally decided to get along and thus booked this domain name.

Of course, something as popular as cricket, it was hard for any name to come by easily. Many people are pre-pending letters like “i” (the Apple people) or “g” (the Google guys). So, I decided to have something and I used a simple “o” in front of cricket to have what it is today — oCricket.

This blog will be the notebook of the journey of the team behind oCricket.