MyFoxHurricane.com covers T.S. Fay
Michael Gay August 18th, 2008
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.
7 Comments Add your own
1. Shawn | August 18th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Anyone know what 2,000 people chatting sounds like?
Noise.
Otherwise, props to the TB crew for a job well done.
2. Anonymous | August 18th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
All those people drunk in the basement are having fun watch the weather person nearly drown in the sideways rain!
3. dcdave | August 19th, 2008 at 1:50 am
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.
4. Mike Escutia | August 19th, 2008 at 9:15 am
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?
5. Anonymous | August 21st, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Stick with NWS.
6. Anonymous | August 22nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
@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….
7. Anonymous | August 27th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Like Microsoft?
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