Fascinating details about how the NYTimes interactive team built 3 online features for the 2010 World Cup and how they solved some of the challenges faced. The live match tracker is an interesting exercise in ingesting data real-time from multiple sources and also re-distributing it to thousands (millions?) of clients.
As the Sports department planned its live-blogging strategy, staff in Graphics and Interactive News started thinking about what sorts of interactive features would best complement live game coverage.