Aug
01

July product update

Bug fixes galore, as we have two big releases next week that we can’t wait to talk to you about.

Sports Content

  • We have added over 449 regular content sources and 2,250 verified Twitter sources, giving us over 14,000 sports sources total.

Homepage

  • Fixed “Recent Stories” on the homepage so it says “Recent Headlines” instead of “Top Headlines”
  • Fixed the animation on the homepage so that photographs properly animate
  • Changed the look of the search button on the homepage so that it looks like a search field, not a button

Team pages

Social media

  • Fixed all of our soccer Facebook and Twitter accounts so that they publish scores when the season starts

Mobile

API

  • We migrated all of our users to our free API

Thanks, as always, FanFeedr.

Aug
01

FanFeedr CEO speaks about entrepreneurship

In the Haverford College quarterly magazine.

You can read the piece here.

Thanks, FanFeedr

Jun
01

Late May site update

Folks,

We hope that you have been enjoying the playoffs in the NBA and NHL, Major League Baseball, transfer rumo(u)rs in football and Formula 1.

Features

  • Added Tweets from players and broadcasters directly on team pages, like this one for the Yankees.

Bug fixes

  • We updated the new logos for the Brooklyn Nets and Utah Jazz (we had the old Jazz logo. Jay-Z didn’t design that one.)
  • Got rid of our merchandise widget. It wasn’t performing well.
  • Re-instituted the Like button on our sports photos
  • Fixed MLS scores (they weren’t behaving)
  • Fixed Redis caching for stories on the homepage, as it was too sticky

More!

  • Added a suite of back-end monitoring tools to better serve you

Thanks, FanFeedr

May
11

May 11 release: a faster service and a redesigned homepage

Folks, A couple of changes for your benefit.

Ease of use

  • We reorganized the FanFeedr homepage to be, shall we say, less cryptic
  • We made sure that the page looks good on tablet devices. Okay, on iPads, to be clear.

Speed

  • We have sped up the entire system so that you will get your sports news as fast as possible
  • We have implemented a more robust caching system to improve the page load time on the site

Scoreboards

  • There is a scoreboard on the homepage
  • Scoreboards are now bold-facing the team that won
  • Team names in the scoreboard are clickable.

Thanks as always, and let us know what you think, FanFeedr

Apr
04

March 30th site release: better sharing

Folks,

This past software development sprint had some minor UX improvements and bug fixes.

Content

  • Photos are now fully published to both Facebook and Twitter. They were only publishing intermittently before.
  • Scores from completed games were occasionally not showing the final score. That has been fixed.
  • Scores in La Liga and Serie A are also correct at all times.

User Experience

Bug fixes

  • We fixed our Facebook embeds to show up better in Facebook.
  • Scores in the Game Center were oddly stuck at the beginning of March. They now reflect the current day.
  • We have fully rolled out cache-busting, so that all of you will see improvements as they happen, without having to flush your cache, which we can all agree is a silly system.
  • The search box that is on every page was “acting flaky” to use the technical term of art. That has been resolved.

Thanks for using the service, and feedback appreciated, FanFeedr

Mar
13

March 13 site launch

Folks,

We made some recent site improvements that we wanted to pass along.

  • SEO enhancements
  • Added team logos to our social media page
  • Fixed color errors on the team pages
  • Fixed the Like/Share buttons on the photo pages
  • Fixed the missing logos on Game Center items for team pages
  • Improved the Fanatics widget on the team pages

Thank you as always for using the site, and we look forward to your feedback.

Thanks, FanFeedr

 

Jan
09

January 6th site release

Features, bug fixes, and more.

  • User experience
    • Made it so you can click photos directly from the home page
    • Made it so you can click a photo to see the next in the series, ad infinitum
    • We added in a widget on NFL team pages in partnership with Fanatics that allows you to get the best team merchandise, like, oh, say, a Tebow jersey
    • Added in a widget for new users coming from Twitter and Facebook to better explain the interface
    • Created a press room with mentions of FanFeedr in the news
  • API
    • We remedied having multiple representation of the same team for NCAA events
    • Fixed the NFL next game query
    • Fixed a bug that made events/last results inaccurate
    • Deleted an events “geo” call that existed in the documentation, but, unfortunately, not in real life
    • Amended calls for home/away teams, which were occasionally getting transposed
    • Made it so that the player’s name was linked to his player ID in boxscores

As always, thank you for your support, FanFeedr

Jan
04

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Dec
09

This week’s release: new features

Folks,

This week’s release has several significant fixes.

More is coming next week.
Thanks, FanFeedr
Nov
09

New Hire at FanFeedr: Joe Gill

 

We are pleased to announce the latest addition to the team, Joe Gill.

Joe graduated from UMass-Lowell with a degree in marketing. He has 16 years of experience in event planning, marketing communications, writing and social media. Before joining us, Joe was the site director/writer for popular Boston sports site, Boston Sports Then and Now. He is also the creator of Boston Sports Blogapalooza, the networking event where social media and Beantown sports collide.

As Sports Editor for FanFeedr, Joe will be covering the NFL and NHL. He will also build a staff of team editors who will generate informative content across all sports. With his strength in event planning, Joe will lead the development of FanFeedr Fest coming early 2012.

Thanks, FanFeedr