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The OleOle Football Platform is a vertical social media platform that enables fans to participate online in the reporting, discussion and debate that happens every day in living rooms, stadiums and pubs around the world everyday. OleOle brings fans together around their loves, their hates and harnesses their passion and fanaticism for the sport. OleOle is a publishing platform for a single topic: football. This just happens to be the biggest sport in the world, with more than a billion fans. No one media organisation can provide coverage on all of football – it can only be done through the eyes and experiences of the fans.
It’s the technology built into the Platform that makes this possible.
| What is it? | What does it do? |
| Football Navigation | The size of professional football is immense – there are over 200 national teams, 5,800 professional clubs, 300 leagues and 57,000 professional players. OleOle has organized all of these to make them easy to find and easy to get to. The site is organized around the world of football, starting with FIFA, through confederations, the federations, leagues, teams and players. Breadcrumbs make it easy to move up or down a level, and players are linked to their national team and its news, as well as their club. |
| Widgets | Just about everything on OleOle is driven though widgets – little windows that provide snapshots of content. Widgets on the site can be configured, moved, expanded, and hidden throughout the various pages. |
| Topic Sections | A section of the platform devoted to every team, league, competition, player and federation in professional football. The section is a multi-media structure where all types of content can be published around that topic. |
| Global reach |
The OleOle Football Platform is available in 10 languages, and each language has the same topics and navigation providing the same access to news for fans on everything in professional football, wherever they are. |
| Fan-Customised Topic Sections | Any OleOle member can customise a topic section to ensure it properly represents that topic. Users can add and hide information widgets, change banners, change backgrounds, change labels and content. |
| Topic System |
Football Topic system enables content contributors to tag a content submissions with one or more Topics to have that submission appear in the appropriate area of the Topic Section. Other users can ensure the topics were correctly applied. Topics are like tags, but they are not user-created – they represent the real world of football – every team, league, player, competition and more. |
| Personalised Home Page |
Every OleOle member gets a personalised homepage that they can customise. Not just banners, colours and fonts, but layout and content. OleOle gives fans a combination of social profile page to upload pictures, manage fan clubs and blogs, but also a football portal page with scores, news and gossip brought in from across the site. |
| Favourite Player / Favourite Team Widgets |
Add any player and any team to your personal home page and get updates on breaking news, photos, scores, videos and fixtures at a glance. |
| Favourite Blogs Widget |
Add any OleOle blog as a Favourite and see the latest posts on your home page. |
| Quicklinks |
A personal menu system that enables users to bookmark any page on the site and save it to the OleOle global navigation menu, for quick access to favourite sections. |
| Blogging Platform |
OleOle has an integrated blogging platform that works just like Wordpress or Blogger. Any OleOle fan can setup one or more blogs in one or more languages with one or more authors. Bloggers have complete control over the look and feel of their blog, and they can write about anything in football in an unmoderated environment. Bloggers benefit from OleOle visitors seeing their posts published to the Topic Sections of the site or the OleOle homepage. Users can add their favourite blogs to their homepage , and blogs have all the necessary social sharing goodies and RSS feeds, too. |
| Facts and History Wiki |
A fan-driven football encyclopedia the enables users to add facts, history, stats and any other historical content about teams, players and other topics. The encyclopedia is based on Media Wiki technology, but has been specifically designed to for football and with additional features like quick-linking, Google Map embedding it is easy to use for everyone. |
| Throw-Ins |
Throw-In’s are OleOle’s way of bringing great articles, photos and videos to the attention of OleOle fans. Anyone can make a Throw-In by adding a link and a topic, and fans can vote and comment. The most popular Throw-In’s make it to the top of the list. |
| Venues |
A user-generated directory of football stadiums around the world. Part of the OleOle football encyclopedia, the venue directory contains facts, history, maps, photos, travel information, and seating charts of every club’s stadium. |
| Video Gallery |
A collection of original videos shot by the fans. The Topic system pushes videos to the most relevant sections, and videos can also be sent as Throw-Ins from other social video sites. |
| Photo Gallery |
A collection of photos and pictures uploaded by fans. Photos can appear on profiles and also in the gallery, and photos can be uploaded for specific matches, so fans in the stadium and photojournalists on the ground can make the photos easy to find. |
| Wallpaper Gallery |
Desktop wallpapers are popular with everyone who has a favourite team. Wallpapers can be automatically added to a fan’s homepage, or downloaded as a computer desktop background. Fans can create and upload wallpapers into the gallery to share with others. |
| Podcasts |
OleOle is a place where some of the best bloggers on the site are also posting daily or weekly podcasts. Futcast en españiol and The Week In Football are the original podcasts, with more to come. |
| Forums |
Forums are “old school”, but they work and football fans love them. This is where the real ranting and debating takes place. There’s a forum for everything, in every language, and the latest forum posts and comments can be viewed right from the Topic sections. |
| Fantasy Football |
OleOle’s Fantasy Football is like no other – there are six leagues including an exclusive European Super League where fans can pick players from any of the clubs in Europe. Fantasy football let’s football fans test their mettle as a team manager, and make the right trades at the right time to increase their points and rankings each month, and over the season. |
| Groups / Fan Clubs |
Anyone can start a group based on mutual interests, or a Fan Club that’s directly associated with a team or player. Fan Clubs can be public or private, and give local organisers a way to discuss, plan events, and communicate, and organise other local fans. They are accessible through the team or player section and add another level of fan participation to the site – enabling “real world” organisation and mobilisation (“to the pub!”) |
| Tables / Scores / Results |
What football site wouldn’t have the basic function of providing scores, tables and fixtures? Certainly not OleOle. Live scores are updated in real time as the match goes on, giving a play by play of all the match events. Schedules / fixtures and tables provide status and future matches. |
| Website Widgets – Offsite | Offsite widgets let fans take OleOle with them. Widgets are available for teams and players to embed in outside websites and blogs. In addition, OleOle offers multiple iGoogle gadgets and a football application for Facebook. |
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