The MyFox team and the Tampa FOX station have been covering Tropical Storm Fay’s approach on a multimedia-heavy weather site at myfoxhurricane.com. The site has a ton of information, but I’m most impressed with the active live chat along the side. At the time I wrote this, nearly 2,000 people were chatting about the weather as the storm blew into Florida. Nice way to engage the users.
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Anyone know what 2,000 people chatting sounds like?
Noise.
Otherwise, props to the TB crew for a job well done.
All those people drunk in the basement are having fun watch the weather person nearly drown in the sideways rain!
Great for the 5 times a year they use it. I think they’d be better positioned if they had an embeddable flash player, that way they could stream their live weather from multiple sites.
Otherwise, their main site is still horrendous. Those Fox O&O sites are just too tied down and useless. Will be interesting to see how and when they redesign.
So what happens when Texas gets its next hurricane or tropical storm? Does KRIV (WTVT’s sister station in Houston) get to borrow the site?
Stick with NWS.
@dcdave – The new revision of the MyFOX platform is due out before the beginning of the year and I saw it on a webex yesterday… It’s infinitely more flexible and attractive to the eye than the current archaic version.
I’m a huge skeptic of the MyFOX platform (as a user of it), but the new version looks to actually be something they should be proud of, assuming they don’t live up to their reputation of false launch dates….
Like Microsoft?