A local Seattle company launched today. I was excited to hear about it. SportsUltra.com promises to deliver sports news to you that you care about. I have been waiting for a site like this for a while now, especially since I moved to the Seattle area. It’s a lot more difficult to follow the Utah Jazz outside of Utah. The site is missing some key features. But it did just go live today, so hopefully they will keep on improving.
One great thing about SportsUltra.com is that you can try it out without signing up for an account. You just add all of the teams, players, and sports writers that you want to follow. The site will then pull then show you a list of sources across the web that are saying stuff about what you want to know about. If you register for the site, you can receive updates via email. Filters are provided at the top to filter by team, player, video, etc. A widget can be added to your web site based on a filter as well that will list news on your blog/web page.
This will be great to follow BYU and the Utah Jazz.
There are a few features that I was expecting to see but couldn’t find anywhere.
Where is the blog? I know you’ll can send site news and info but I want to read about how you guys work. Get a blog.
I want to subscribe to my news via an RSS feed. This was key for me. And do you guys just search news sites or do you search blogs as well?
They could also add some other features such as adding images to your customized news page. It is not necessary to be a social network, but the site could use some networking features.
For the most part, when customizing my content, everything was there. A few reporters weren’t listed that I was hoping for. There were a few things that I found odd when adding college alumni.
After reading around a little, I noticed that there are some other sites that offer similar services. I need to take a look at those to do some comparing. SportsUltra fell a little short for me. I’d like to see some improvements in the next few months. I’ll definitely keep my eye on them.
Here are some other reviews:
- SportsUltra Offers Intuitive and Dynamic Custom News
- SportsUltra.com – The Sports News You Want
- New Sport Site Launches Today
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
Don’t forget to follow the Sonics, Josh… you’re a Seattle boy now. One of the reasons the Jazz have been hard to follow for you might be that the Jazz are experiencing what is known as an “off season.” That site seems cool, though. Always informative – your blog.