Dec
16

Version 1.1 of our iPhone App is Live.

Get v.1.1 here

Version 1.1 of the FanFeedr iPhone app is live on the iTunes App Store and available now as a free download.

What’s New

  1. Instapaper support. Save your stories for offline reading with the ‘Read later with Instapaper’ button under the share icon in the bottom left of the article screen. (Requires a free Instapaper account).
  2. Bug fixes. Using Apple’s new bug reporting feature, we were able to identify and fix some problems that we didn’t catch during testing.
  3. UI refinements. Slight changes have been made to the interface to keep things looking slick.

Thank you for your interest in the FanFeedr iPhone and iPod Touch application.

Thanks, FanFeedr.

Dec
14

New Sports in 2010 Social Media predictions

FanFeedr weighed in at the end of the book, which you can get for free here:

Sports Social Media Predictions 2010

Let us know what you think of the ebook in the comments.

Dec
12

Sports, distributed: the FanFeedr API

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We relaunched our API tonight, and it has several sizes that should fit your sporting needs.

What would I do with the FanFeedr API?

Essentially, you can build a robust sports application with headlines, info and tweets from the best sources in sports.

What sports can I access using the API?

  • NFL
  • MLB
  • NBA
  • NHL
  • Soccer (or Football, if you prefer)
  • NCAA football
  • NCAA basketball
  • NCAA women’s basketball
  • Tennis
  • Golf

We have four tiers . . .

Free

  • 100 queries/hour for any sport, league, athlete, team or college
  • URLs are FanFeedr URLs
  • Free

Free Daily

  • 1,500/day for any sport, league, athlete, team or college
  • URLs are FanFeedr URLs
  • Free

Gold

  • 250 QPH
  • URLs are from the underlying provider
  • Email support for help desk issues
  • Increased caching abilities.
  • $250/month

Enterprise

  • 2,500 QPH
  • URLs are from the underlying provider
  • Phone and email support for help desk issues
  • Increased caching abilities.
  • $1,200/month

API users can ingest JSON or XML, whichever is easiest, and we are adding new responses as they are requested. Additionally, we offer round-the-clock support on the paid services, as well as a professional services engineer who can assist you and your team with implementation.

We are adding a fifth tier, where we pay you to use the API, in January. Let us know if you would like to be notified when that becomes available. If you are site that gets between 50,000 to 1MM uniques a month, and you would like to make small to major incremental scratch, ping us at info at fanfeedr dot com.

Where can I learn more?

  • The API is here.
  • The documentation is here.
  • The IRC channel is here.

Let us know what you think and/or need.

FanFeedr!

Dec
11

Release 41: Blog Spectacular

We had a smallish release this week in advance of some awesome goodness next week.

Specifically, we launched a new feature on the home page that allows you to see the top publishing blogs over the last 24hrs. Heading up the most recent list are the Sports Blogs from Yahoo, and a surprise presence on the leaderboard is the Arrowhead Pride site (all about the KC Chiefs, natch) from SB Nation. Please check out the list, when you visit, to find new sources of smart content.

We also added a bunch of new NBA content sources, so you can get your jazz-on-the-hardwood fill without having withdrawal symptoms in the lean hours of the AM.

As always, thanks, FanFeedr

Dec
07

Release 40 is up and full of holiday cheer

Not really, but we cynically know that holiday headlines get more page-rank juice in December.

The formal proceedings:

  • Schedules constrained to one season.
  • Basketball box score cleanup (no more leading “S’s”, whatever those were about.)
  • Better recap links (specific to team, conference, league)
  • Improved soccer names in scoreboard (the German teams were killing us.)
  • Conference-specific standings and scoreboard
  • Fixed AJAX update for social gestures (removed dupes)
  • Added tennis/golf players to our Hot Topics
  • We have over 5,200 sources, including Huffington Post sports.
  • Fixed recap tweets formatting in Twitter

We hope you are having a good December and we will have more at the end of the week.

Thanks, Feedr of Fans