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Sunday, May 13, 2012
iPhone and iPad App Makes it Easy to Follow Content on Sports Teams!!
Posted on 2:21 PM by Admin
Sports fans have it easy nowadays. We have team blogs, websites,
Twitter feeds and up-to-the-minute video clips on demand. Yet for all
these conveniences, fans still have to do the legwork of subscribing to
feeds or following the tweets of players or beat writers. The Team Stream and Team Stream HD apps from Bleacher Report aim to make it easier for fans to find and follow content on their favorite teams.
Source: iTunesDespite
its association with Bleacher Report sports site, the Team Stream app
contains news and updates from a variety of sources across the
blogosphere. These sources include select team-centric blogs as well as
the Twitter feeds of star players and beat writers from your favorite
team. While the focus is on Bleacher Report content, it is nice to see
other sources featured as well.
While Team Stream includes these additional sources, the apps stop
short of offering a true stream of team news due to a lack of
customization. There's no way to add additional blogs, for example, or
Twitter feeds, for that matter. You cannot remove content, either. It's a
take-it-or-leave-it proposition.
Team Stream and Team Stream HD offer one click, "set it and forget
it" updates on your favorite teams and national stories. Both apps offer
breaking news and score update notifications. In testing, I often
learned of breaking news through these notifications, often times only
seconds after the news appeared on Twitter. The notification settings
alone are arguably the most useful feature of the Team Stream apps.
The Team Stream and Team Stream HD apps are virtually identical
except for the way that the HD iPad version displays larger pictures
with headlines in the stream. The apps are so similar, in fact, that I
wonder why Bleacher Report didn't just release a single universal app
for both platforms. Nevertheless, the layouts and user experience remain
similar on both the iPhone and the iPad.
While the Bleacher Report content is interesting enough in its own
right, Team Stream makes it frustrating to navigate posts longer than
one page. This is because Team Stream divides content amongst several
pages, presumably in an effort to boost page views. This is maddening
enough on the actual Bleacher Report website--its presence in the iOS
app is frustrating to say the least. While both apps are free and ad
supported, the ads largely stay out of the way at the bottom of articles
and I never found their inclusion to intrude on the reading experience.
No
social sports app would be complete without social media integration.
Team Stream allows users to link to their Facebook and Twitter accounts
for sharing. Users can also email links to content as well as save
content to Instapaper for later reading. Social sharing worked as
expected in testing.
Although it isn't perfect, Team Stream offers sports fans an easy way
to follow the latest news on their favorite teams without subscribing
to a bunch of RSS or Twitter feeds. It offers convenience at an
unbeatable price. Either version of Team Stream is worth a look from any
fan seeking an easier way to keep up with their favorite team in one
easy-to-digest format.
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