Delivering content to multiple devices

11 Jan 2005 12:42 PM

nmosafi

Hi there

This is not a specific question, rather just asking for advice and
drawing upon your prior experiences.

I am in the process of developing a website using .NET and ASP.NET.
The website is to be an online lottery. I have a database, data layer
and business objects all in their own assemblies. Then there's two web
applications - one internal for administering the data, and one public
for playing and the game and viewing information about it.

Now I am re-architecturing things slightly and I need advice. We
intend to approach mobile phone and interactive TV providers to try and
get some sort of deal going. This would necessitate being able to
serve content to mobiles and TV, as well as being able to play the game
over those media.

I have obviously been doing a little research, but would like to know
if anyone has any experience or knowledge about this. I envisage
creating web services to allow you to play the game, and also to serve
content (articles, top 10 players, user details etc). This content
needs to be deliverable to mobile phones and interactive TV as well as
our own website. I envisage some java client for phones, or being able
to play over SMS as an alternative. Also does anyone know any
information about sending/receiving SMS messages using .NET? How would
you deal with authentication if people are playing over their phones or
on TV?

Are there any predefined standards (XML presuambly) that I should be
following in order to make this all work smoothly. Obviously I want
the system to be as technically mature as possible before I approach
any prospective partners.

Thanks
Neil

11 Jan 2005 8:31 PM

Adam Tatusko, MCSD .NET, MCAD .NET, MCDBA, MCSE, MCSA

Is this for a US company? Since this is a gambling-related application,
you're going to need to create an offshore corporation since
online-gambling from US servers is illegal.

12 Jan 2005 10:19 AM

nmosafi

No it's a UK company so I should be OK.