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.

Jun
14

ProgrammableWeb Plugs FanFeedr’s API As A MUST HAVE

 

In ProgrammableWeb’s “The New API: Apps, Partners, Income” , API is discussed as no longer a “NICE TO HAVE”. It is now a “MUST HAVE” for businesses. API should now stand for Apps Partners Income.

Partners is where FanFeedr comes in:

Some app creators are enlightened from the get-go. Alibras and FanFeedr each launched their APIs and apps on the same day. Why not? They needed them for the app anyway. Others need more encouragement, which often comes from potential partners, or even internal teams. The ESPN API developed out of the public eye for two years before it launched.

Be sure to get your Must Have FanFeedr API today.

 

 

 

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

Feb
23

Product Announcement: API Fixes And Changes For 29 February 2012

 

We wanted to let everyone know of the upcoming changes to the API. The push to production will occur on the afternoon of 29 February 2012 and will not result in any downtime.

One note, we’ve added pagination in a backward-compatible way to many of the calls (listed below). We encourage everyone to start planning on incorporating the pagination into their software. Documentation will be updated to reflect these changes when we make the push to production.

Thank you for your patience as we tackle some of these larger issues we’ve been experiencing.

Here is a more detailed list of the outward facing changes:

1. Several improvements to our event systems that will result in more accurate dates and times across sports.
2. Correct player ID’s will now be included in our boxscores.
3. Some api calls will now have pagination. All calls with pagination will default to page 0 for compatibility reasons. They will also accept a get parameter ‘page’ which will specify which page should be returned (0 … N). affected calls:
* /persons call will now be restricted to 100 persons
* /events call will now be restricted to 100 events
* /events/preseason call will now be restricted to 100 events
* /events/season call will now be restricted to 100 events
* /events/postseason call will now be restricted to 100 events
* /events/next call will now be restricted to 10 events
* /events/last call will now be restricted to 10 events

Please reply to this topic with any questions or comments.

Link to Category : http://developer.fanfeedr.com/forum/topics/85399
Link to Topic: http://developer.fanfeedr.com/forum/read/154650
Link to Comment  : http://developer.fanfeedr.com/forum/jump-to-post/160718

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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

Dec
28

FanFeedr Founder Ty Ahmad-Taylor Talks API With Mashery

Ty Ahmad-Taylor, Founder of Fanfeedr, discusses APIs for big media and small start ups. In the video below, Ty explains the importance for media companies to be a platform , instead of a destination, to attract the largest audience possible.

Learn how Fanfeedr in particular is leveraging a multi-tiered developer strategy with their API dashboard.
Video Key Points

- Issues facing large media companies and goal of attracting largest audience possible
- Challenges of having a product, a platform, or both
- Value of multi-tiered developer strategy
- The upside and downside of separating the front and back end

See Original Mashery Story By Clicking Here.

Dec
06

FanFeedr’s API Widget: Enriching Your Site Visitor’s Experience

Philadelphia Eagles’ Other View Widget powered by the FanFeedr Publishers’ Dashboard

We recently launched our widget generator, available now, for sports sites.

Why would I add a FanFeedr content widget to my site?

The Publishers’ Dashboard enables you to produce real-time, constantly-updated widgets based on a team, league or player of your choosing.

  • Perhaps you write a blog on the New England Patriots and you want to drive deeper engagement to your site.
  • The widget displays the best real-time breaking team news that will keep your readers informed about their favorite franchise.
  • Rather than being one of many sources of content about a team or league, the FanFeedr widget allows you to be the best place to get news and information.
  • This translates into longer stays with your site (third-party sites create a new tab or window) and more repeat traffic.

Carl Desberg, content manager of  Boston Sports Then And Now, explains the value that FanFeedr API widgets bring to his site:

“Boston Sports Then and Now has been growing by leaps and bounds over the past several months, as content and exposure is at an all time high. We are  looking to keep our readers, as up-to-date as possible and make our site a one-stop-shop for Boston Sports news. Now, not only can you read our insightful blog posts, but you can stay on top of your favorite Boston teams.  With the Bruins and Patriots FanFeedr widgets on our homepage, fans no longer have to go anywhere else for breaking news about their favorite teams.”

 

Boston Sport Then & Now’s Patriots News Widget powered by the FanFeedr Publishers’ Dashboard

How difficult is it to generate and install?

You don’t have to be a HTML guru to produce these widgets.

  • FanFeedr does all the hard work for you.
  • The user-friendly instructions will enable you to produce widgets in minutes.
  • You can customize the size of the widget and how many news items that will be displayed.
  • Press save, cut and paste the generated code into a Word Press blog or website.
  • You now have your own team/league newsroom embedded on your site.

Don’t take it from us, listen to what Chris Rott of Fantasy Football Gator had to say:

“FanFeedr has developed a superb image-delivery solution. Thanks to the simplicity of the FanFeedr API, we were able to integrate “play-of-the-day” action images into our Fantasy Football Web site within just a few hours. In addition, the FanFeedr AJAX interface is built on well-known standards that are efficient and easy to implement in either JavaScript or PHP. This flexibility has allowed us to fully automate the administrative aspects of the image-delivery process, helping us to deliver a solid and reliable service to our customers.”

With Fanfeedr API widgets, you too can make your site a hub for sports news.

For more information on the Fanfeedr API widget please CONTACT publisher@fanfeedr.com.

Mar
25

FanFeedr And SB Nation Team Up

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Partnership Combines Real-Time, Multi-Source Information

Feeds With Sports Coverage For The Serious Fan

New York, NY March 23, 2011 – 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 DashboardTM 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 DashboardTM 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 DashboardTM allows publishers to view, select and publish real-time feeds of mainstream sports news, blogs, photos, videos, tweets, scores, data, and other information.  The FanFeedr API that powers the Publisher DashboardTM, contains content and data from over  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.  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, visit  www.fanfeedr.com.



Mar
22

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

Improvements

Mobile hotness

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.

 

Jan
10

Sprint 12: Goodies for the New Year

First the really good news: we hit over 160,000 Twitter followers across our accounts last month. Yay for us!

For the following site upgrades, most are technology fixes and upgrades, so you are duly forewarned.

  • We paginated our Leaderboard, so the pages loads faster and you can do a deeper dive on your favorite sports
  • We are now aggregating all of the player and team tweets from Major League Soccer, as you can see here via our list of MLS Tweets
  • Fixed a weird glitch with SIU Edwardsville Cougars’s basketball schedule, because we were besieged with requests and prioritized it
  • We added monitoring to all of our server processes to ensure better uptime
  • We upgraded SQL Alchemy and Mako to versions 0.6.5 and 0.3.6 respectively
  • We are publishing some additional material directly out of Solr
  • We upgraded and fixed a number of FanFeedr API calls, which are noted in detail on the developer portal

More good stuff in the pipeline, and thank you, as always for using the service.

Thanks, FanFeedr