The Web gets Real
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Before It Was the Web
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TCS development project
Financial market data giant Telerate also owned a live "sportsline" feed called SportsTicker.
In 1987 The Communication Studio discussed with Telerate the potential for using our software, formatting techniques, graphics and templates to provide a dynamic enchanced display for SportsTicker's text-only sports information service.
We demonstrated how our custom software, based on page templates & graphic sports icon clip art, could scan the SportsTicker text feed and automatically reconfigure it into a graphically-sophisticated display page.
The screenshots at right show:
- The "raw" text-only SportsTicker feed
- A collection of team logoclip art produced by TCS
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The finished (enhanced)
page
Template + Logo Clip Art + SportsTicker data
We based the SportsLine on our TCS Textup Context Management System and Otto automation tool. Although SportsTicker didn't buy our automation software, it did result in further work with Telerate's subsidiary Translux.
We felt there was a lot of market potential for this tool: volume production of interactive online pages, electronic signage, cable scroll.