Mastering sports content starts with loving it.

XML Team's staff of engineers, editors, and evangelizers combine expertise in sports and publishing with a hefty appreciation for innovative sports applications.

Founded in 2003, XML Team Solutions provides content solutions for companies who depend on sports news and data. Today, our syndicated feeds cover all major North American sports leagues and events, and our library of international sources has been growing every year. Our cients include major sports portals, media properties, fantasy game providers, and professional teams. Our industry-leading software allows clients to be up and running with live sports updates without devoting months of custom development time.

With our Sportso data-entry platform, XML Team is breaking new ground in game tracking and news syndication. Most recently, Sportso has been selected as the platform to be used by over 70 newspapers for the new National Sports Content Sharing Network.

In October, 2009, XML Team acquired Fantasy Sports Services, a fantasy sports pioneer both online and in print for the past 20 years. FSS hosts in-person and online fantasy sports competitions for professional teams and leading media companies. FSS's in-house publishing division, The Sports Forecaster, generates original, up-to-date player profiles and performance analyses. The Sports Forecaster also publishes Canada's leading fantasy hockey draft magazine, marketed by Canada's The Score Television Network.

• Read the Press Release announcing XML Team's acquisition of FSS

Together, XML Team and FSS offer high-end data delivery, web services, hosted sites, stat tracking and news publishing tools, exclusive player profiles, private-labelled fantasy games, and live fantasy sports corporate events.

• Original information architect at The Wall Street Journal Online, 1993-2000.
• 3 years at Pinnacor (formerly ScreamingMedia) designing and managing syndication and portal applications.
• Founding chairman of SportsML, the global XML standard for sports data.

• Specializes in SportsML development, web design and content management
• Veteran editor and developer of sports web sites for print and television outlets with a background in journalism

• SportsML expert, XML programmer, project manager, information architect
• Veteran of sports publishing rollouts at Canadian Broadcasting Corp., among other companies

• Hardcore developer with 20 years experience in networking, system administration, and content management systems.
• Expert at Linux, Java, XML, JDBC, and other languages and protocols.

• Held executive positions at large corporations in retail and healthcare industries.
• Logged more hours listening to sports talk radio than most mortals.

• Founded Fantasy Sports Services in 1989.
• Leads enterprise sales, business development, and live corporate events.

• Founded The Sports Forecaster in 1993.
• Leads editorial and statistics team.

Creativity, Leadership, Passion, Technical Wizardry, and a Track Record of Success.

XML is the eXtensible Markup Language. A World Wide Web standard for adding markup to documents, XML allows publishers to describe unambiguously what each component of a document is about.

For decades, publishers of sports data had made up their own proprietary mechanisms for differentiating between a team and a player, a field goal and a touchdown, a win and a loss.

But in 2001, members of the IPTC, an international association of news publishers, embarked upon an effort to standardize how sports data is communicated. IPTC members include such global publishers as The Associated Press, The New York Times, AFP, dpa, Reuters, PA, UPI, and many others.

In March of 2003, the Sports Markup Language was ratified. Version 1. Finally, with SportsML, publishers and content receivers could rally around a single open, modern and internationalized standard for exchanging sports information.

XML Team Solutions' founders have been participating in the SportsML standardization process from its inception. XML Team President Alan Karben is SportsML's current and founding Chairman, and he spends a great deal of time cooperating with representatives from other publishing companies to ensure that SportsML grows steadily and intelligently.

Because all of our technologies revolve around this open standard, XML Team's clients have an added comfort that the systems they depend on are reusable, expandable and understandable.

XML Team Solutions, Inc., Fantasy Sports Services Inc., and all associated divisions and subsidiaries enumerate all licensing terms, including but not limited to any refund and cancellation policies, within the individual license agreements signed by our clients and ourselves. See your particular license agreement for further details.

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