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January 6th site release

Ty — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:22:44 +0000

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

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

This week’s release: new features

Ty — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 23:33:33 +0000

Folks,

This week’s release has several significant fixes.

Added in a direct link to FanFeedr Hot Takes in the main navigation. Please check it out for super-timely insights into what people are talking about in sports.
Support for Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 9
Fixes for Firefox to see the entire stories

RSS feeds: get your favorite team news directly in your favorite news readers, like Google Reader, Flipboard, or My Yaho0!

More is coming next week.

Thanks, FanFeedr

New Hire at FanFeedr: Joe Gill

Ty — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:27:33 +0000

We are pleased to announce the latest addition to theÂ team,Â JoeÂ Gill.

JoeÂ graduated from UMass-Lowell with a degree in marketing. He has 16 years of experience in event planning, marketing communications, writingÂ and social media. Before joining us,Â JoeÂ 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,Â JoeÂ 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,Â JoeÂ willÂ lead the development of FanFeedr Fest coming early 2012.

Thanks, FanFeedr

FanFeedr at the Sports Business Journal Conference with Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare

Ty — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:36:10 +0000

On October 6th, 2011, Ty Ahmad-Taylor, FanFeedr‘s CEO and Founder, took part in a social media panel entitled Brand Building: Fostering Community by Creating Sustainable Conversations through Social Media and Sports with Nick Grudin of Facebook, Omid Ashtari of Twitter and J. Crowley of Foursquare. Part of the discussion focused on the league-leading work being done in social media by the Washington Redskins, the devotion shown by NHL fans, and the movement towards “interest graphs” in addition to social graphs.

What we have been doing/the new FanFeedr

Ty — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:35:26 +0000

Folks,We have been hard at work on a new version of FanFeedr that more closely aligns with your needs.

We have spent the last few months interviewing sports consumers about their pain points in consuming sports news and information, and we have found an opportunity in providing you with the best team news and information, on one page, using the FanFeedr API.

We are shifting our focus from providing you with a FanFeed of news and information for several teams to a single feed around just one team (and you can follow several teams at once if you wish by having more than one FanFeedr web page open.)

First | better team focus. We know that you want a single place to get the best news and information about your favorite teams, so we are making our team pages the focus of the service. Every day, you can keep the team page open and get real time updates, live scores, lineups, schedules and rosters.

Second | a better looking site. We are sprucing up the interface to reflect your feedback and our own notions of what looks good.

Third | better sources. We have heard your requests, and you will see more value and less noise from the best sources, including the best LOCAL sources. By â€œbest sources,â€ we mean that all sources we’re including have been hand-curated. Additional curated sources include national sources and columnists. For Twitter, we’re only showing a curated list of columnists and content source accounts.

Fourth | more real-time. We are making our news delivery faster so that you get more of the best news about your favorite teams.

Fifth | no registration needed. You donâ€™t to sign up to get the best that FanFeedr has to offer. Just bookmark your favorite team page to be in the know.

Our entire focus is on making your team news experience the best it can be, and we have spent a lot of time working on customer interviews to understand your pain points for consuming sports news.

As we launch different sports, we are looking to quickly iterate on all of the pages to make them better. Your feedback is invaluable to making sure that we give you the best product.

We are sure that you will like the results. In the event that you donâ€™t, please let us know.

Thanks, Ty Ahmad-Taylor, CEO and Founder, FanFeedr

FanFeedr interviewed by Talk NYC, on startups

Ty — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:04:38 +0000

Thanks, FanFeedr

Welcoming Viet Doan to the Team

Ty — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:53:47 +0000

FanFeedr is pleased to announce the latest addition to the technology team,Â VietÂ Doan.

Viet Doan’s background.

VietÂ is an engineer in both back- and front-technologies.Â He finished his degree in Computer Science at the top ofÂ his class. Â VietÂ has been a professional computer programmer in NJ, NY, and Philadelphia over the last nine years.

Before coming to FanFeedr,Â VietÂ led GSI Commerce through multiple successful site launches. He was the sole architect forÂ Toys R Us, Calvin Klein, and My Flavor.

We are very happy to have him onboard, where he will lead all of our front-end efforts.

Thanks, FanFeedr

FanFeedr And SB Nation Team Up

Ty — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:07:35 +0000

Partnership Combines Real-Time, Multi-Source Information

Feeds With Sports Coverage For The Serious Fan

New York, NY March 23, 2011 â€“ FanFeedr, the real time personalized sports service that has re-invented the way fans enjoy their favorite teams and players, has announced a partnership with SB Nation, the fastest-growing online sports media company.

Under the new partnership, SB Nation will be using FanFeedr’s Publisher Dashboard^TM to empower its writers to curate and publish real-time content feeds for its audience. The first product from the FanFeedr collaboration will be a series of digital newsletter products that SB Nation will distribute to fans of the National Football League’s 32 teams. Additional digital products from SB Nation using the FanFeedr Publisher Dashboard^TM are planned for Major League Baseball and other major sports leagues.

“We’re thrilled to be working with SB Nation to build customer-centric applications that drive value for their audience,” says FanFeedr CEO and Founder Ty Ahmad-Taylor. “FanFeedr and SB Nation are a great match in terms of technology, timeliness and talent. The real winners will be sports fans everywhere, who will be getting the most topical information for their favorite teams, directly into their inbox. FanFeedr is making SB Nation’s amazing sports coverage even better.”

“FanFeedr is a great addition to SB Nation’s arsenal and a real win for our audience,” says SB Nation CEO Jim Bankoff. “FanFeedr’s real-time curation of sports news will empower our world class sports editors and experts to produce best-in-class newsletters, starting with all the NFL teams and then expanding to other sports throughout the year. Our audience expects the best in sports coverage from us, FanFeedr lets us deliver it to them practically as the news happens.”

FanFeedr made the product real in a few months, and this is the first product out of the partnership.

FanFeedr’s Publisher Dashboard^TMallows publishers to view, select and publish real-time feeds of mainstream sports news, blogs, photos, videos, tweets, scores, data, and other information.Â The FanFeedr API that powers the Publisher Dashboard^TM, contains content and data from overÂ 8,000 information sources that are matched against more than 55,000 athletes and 4,000 sports teams, including 1,700 colleges and universities, across 15 sports. Â It is being used by over 500 developers. FanFeedr has revolutionized the sports experience by taking fandom to an entirely new level of access and involvement, available via any PC, tablet or smart phone.

SB Nation is one of the top 10 sports sites in terms of unique visitors and the fastest growing among them, publishing over 300 communities for passionate fans worldwide. SB Nation is the first major sports publisher to harness the power of FanFeedr’s API for real-time sports news aggregation.

For more information on FanFeedr’s publisher, developer, and consumer products, visitÂ www.fanfeedr.com.

Sprint 18 released: March Madness Video on Demand and iPhone/iPad updates

Ty — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:23:53 +0000

Improvements

You can watch all of the March Madness games directly from our NCAA Basketball scoreboards

Mobile hotness

We relaunched our FanFeedr iPhone and iPad application to get rid of the login loop that was driving some of you crazy
We also relaunched our Redskins Feedr application for you dedicated Redskins fans
Made the application more stable
Added in other bug fixes

Bug fixes

We fixed a login issue in our Chrome application for Facebook
Fixed an issue whereby scores were being replicated multiple times via the API
Fixed the way that photo embeds from FanFeedr into Facebook display (they work now)
Inline commenting on the home page was fixed
Fixed “Hotness” on the site that so that it works immediately for new items on the site
Fixed a bug whereby our Chrome app displaying the same favicon for all sources.

Cool? Cool.

Sprint 16 and 17 released

Ty — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:22:19 +0000

We had several updates for you, primarily in the realm of getting bigger boxes for everything from game recap, boxscore and photo processing, to updating our database servers to make them distributed.

The detailed breakdown.

Epic

Our NCAA basketball scoreboard page occasionally was overwhelmed when some 150 took place on a single day. We refactored that page to make it more robust and stable.
Gaming was moved over to our message-queue so that your game results will arrive in a more timely fashion on both Facebook and on FanFeedr.com
We added in MLB and College Basketball into Facebook Pick’Em, just in time for March Madness

Bugs

Removed tweets from the Chrome application
Gaming updates sent via email now have the up-to-date player rank
Amended photo publishing to Facebook and Twitter to provide more value by actually publishing photos

That’s it. The current sprint is all about bug fixes, so we will have more for you next week.

Thanks, as always, FanFeedr