Sep
11

Release 28: FootballFeedr

Are you ready for some football? Here at FanFeedr HQ, we certainly are. We’ve even broken out the miniature helmets full of M&Mâ„¢s and Cheez-itâ„¢s for the occasion. What’s more, we have our weekly release ready to go as well. What’s in this week’s snack bowl, you ask? Let’s get to it:

  • First, in response to our user testing, we’ve added a tighter user interface on content pages, so you can get right to the content without most of the window dressing.
  • We’ve also added a navigation widget for teams, so when you’re on your favorite team or league page it’s easier to find news about your teams’ rivals.
  • Streamlined Facebook integration. In response to privacy concerns, we’ve minimized the personal info we borrow from Facebook, while still making it easy to share status updates, comments, and content.
  • Faster search performance, thanks to some fancy query tuning.
  • For our API partners, we’ve refined our classification algorithms to increase the number of content items in specific feeds without sacrificing the increased accuracy we introduced with strictness last week. (Aren’t you glad we told you?)
  • Anticipating the fast-approaching NBA season, we’ve created content feeds for your favorite NBA teams on Twitter.
  • What release would be complete without new content sources? 250 this week, in fact.
  • And, last but not least…integration of FanSnap for buying baseball tickets. If you haven’t heard of FanSnap, you should definitely check it out — not only are many tickets available at discounted prices, you can view available tickets directly an interactive stadium seating chart (among other nifty features). Even though baseball season is almost over, it’s a great chance to see a few games before the postseason, and support for NBA and NHL games will be coming soon.

Here at FanFeedr we strive to remain impartial towards specific teams, at least in our official correspondence, but during football season impartiality is a rule meant to be broken. In that spirit, then, GO GIANTS!

Until next week,

Your friends at FanFeedr.

Jul
31

Release 22 with the good stuff is up

Hello there, sports consumer.

This week we have a chunk of good stuff for you.

API

  • We have 10 developers using our API, and we are looking forward to their output (which we will share)

User experience

  • We added top-level navigation to all of the major sports that we cover in the upper right-hand of the large search box on every page
  • We made it easier to see the login area
  • We added visual cues for the RSS feeds to make your RSS feed acquisition easier

Content
We have coaches of all of the major US sports in the kitty. Examples:

Other content:

Tech
Our new categorizer is going to make it easier to add new sports, so you will see:

  • Cricket
  • Rugby
  • Lacrosse
  • Cycling
  • Swimming
Jul
17

Release 20 is live

Horn of plenty

Horn of plenty

The horn of plenty for this week:

  • Our content and search RESTful API is available. Get aggregated sports on your site in a few easy steps.
  • We have a store, where you can get all of your FanFeedr gear
  • Better hotness. We’re constantly refining this formula to represent what users find most compelling. This latest version improves how views, comments and ratings are represented within the formula.
  • UX improvements for fan/follower pages and fan icons.
  • New content sources have been added, with highlights including better Tennis and F-1 coverage

As always, thanks, FanFeedr