R34 arrives hot from the oven

One of the central design goals of FanFeedr to help people find sports content that’s not just new but interesting — in short, surfacing whatever stories attract the most attention. So it’s not unusual here at Global HQ to hear us to discuss our internal attention metric (what we call “hotness”) as we tune it to capture the likes and dislikes of FanFeedr Nation. This week our discussions have finally borne fruit:

• We rolled out a new algorithm for hotness, together with a new homepage widget that shows the topics people care most about, and the story that makes each topic so popular
• We’ve added over 4500 new content sources (a new record, thanks to our dedicated interns), so we can now say that we’ve clarified on Cleveland State, banged it out for Boise State, and fired it up for Fresno State. Yeah, I said it.
• Also available this week is an update to the FanFeedr iPhone app (thanks to the steady hand on the wheel of Sangraal Aiken, our iPhone maven), that provides major improvements to performance and display and better behavior in landscape mode
• And we tuned our greeting for first-time users joining us from social networks to be more elegant and refined. Just like us.

It’s a big sports weekend here in the Big Apple, so that’s all for this week. Tune in next time when we discuss R35, next week’s release. And as always we thank you for your support.

Cheers,

Your friends at FanFeedr.