More about CricketerNews.com

CricketerNews.com is a Java based RSS aggregator for Cricket. It aggregates Cricket news, videos, blogs and podcasts from a variety of sources - from around the world. The site aggregates cricket news from some of popular news sources such as BBC, ABC, CricInfo etc to name just a few. The site pulls together some of the most famous Cricket blogs from around the world too. And then there are Videos and Podcasts.

The cricketernews.com team put together the site in just under 3 months. For techie folks, here is some technical info.

What technologies does cricketernews.com use ?
As you may already know, cricketernews.com is an RSS aggregation site. It uses an enhanced version of Informa RSS engine and mySQL database. Persistance layer has a good mixture of Hibernate and JDBC. EHcache has been used improve the performance. JSF is used in the server side. The slick front-end has been made possible thanks to AJAX. We used Yahoo's AJAX toolkit. We'll make more techie info available soon. We also plan to Open Souce our code, so that CricketerNews.com could grow rapidly, benefiting from Cricket-loving software developers.

Feedback, suggestion, comments are most welcome at contact@cricketernews.com

Welcome to CricketerNews.com Blog

Wecome to CricketerNews.com blog. This blog has been published by creators of www.cricketernews.com. We will use this blog to keep everyone updated on what's happening at cricketernews.com and also to talk about our passion - Cricket.

What is CricketerNews.com ?
CricketerNews.com is an innovative website dedicated to Cricket Videos, News, Blogs and Podcasts. It was designed to be a one-stop-shop for all cricket news.

Why did we create CricketerNews.com ?
Because we love and live Cricket.
Because we have insatiable hunger for anything related to Cricket.
Because we spend a lot of time reading, watching and listening to Cricket.
There are plenty of good cricket sites, blogs and videos out there in the Internet. The information is spread across the web, we simply aggregate information.

How did CricketerNews.com come into being ?
CricketerNews.com started as an after-work, evening-hours project around the summer of 2006. However, we soon realised that general public could benefit from such a site. So, we put some more time, effort and money to put CricketerNews.com online.