There and Back Again

With fantasy football season around the bend I thought I’d post some of the sites I read. Mainly so I have a list of them somewhere

• FF toolbox - Rankings, News, Updated Weekly
• Rotoworld - News, Articles, some of the good stuff is premium
• Yahoo Sports - I play at yahoo, good articles, video, rankings from other players
• Fantasy Football Fools - Good in depth articles (just found it, but i like it so far)

I’ve read other stuff here and there but nothing that has become a staple, post a comment if you got any suggestions.

Oh if you have a league with some room let me know, i’m only in one at the moment and I could do up to 3.

Thanks to simplificator there is now a Ruby gem for using the Webthumb API.

Announcement and installation instructions
Readme

Its new feature time for webthumb again. Today i’m making the alpha release of video thumb.

Videothumb gives you the option of getting back a thumbnail of the video on a given url instead of that page. So if you thumbnail Simon’s Cat ‘Cat Man Do’ you can get

instead of
.

Videothumb gives you a thumbnail from the beginning of the movie (this may change) one from 1 second and one from 5 seconds, and all the normal sizes made from the first first frame snapshot.

To enable videothumb for your requests just add a videothumb tag to yours requests like:

<webthumb>
	<apikey>key here</apikey>
	<request>
		<url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ffwDYo00Q</url>
                <videothumb>1</videothumb>
	</request>
</webthumb>

If a supported video url isn’t detected a normal thumbnail will be created, so you can easily enable videothumb for all your requests.

Videothumb currently only works with youtube but I will be adding support for a bunch of other sites over the next couple days.

Currently videothumb is only available as an addon to webthumb, but may be made available as a separate api with additional features if there is demand.