John Vaughan
The Web gets Real
Transitional Surge
Before It Was the Web
The New Synthesis
Financial market data giant Telerate also owned a live "sportsline" feed called SportsTicker.
Challenges
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.
Solutions
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
Team Logo Clip art to be merged in
The finished (enhanced) page
Template + Logo Clip Art + SportsTicker data
We felt there was a lot of market potential for this tool: volume production of interactive online pages, electronic signage, cable scroll.
Point of Sale Presentation, TCS Textup context management system and Otto automated page assembly engine, NAPLPS vector-based graphics.
Note: The pages displayed here were designed using the limited 16-color palette then standard for most PC's.
