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.

Feb
05

Release 49: Blackberry, Android, Palm and Windows Mobile users get in the action

There are three themes for this week’s release.

Mobile

  • We have made it so that our links work on mobile devices. If you want to follow your favorite teams on your Blackberry, Android, Palm or Windows Mobile device, just add follow the team on Twitter.
  • You can find your teams’ Twitter account by going to the team page, like this one, and clicking on “Follow on Twitter.”

Gaming

  • New and better badges, you can see them on the Leaderboard.
  • We added a FanFeedr Pick’Em page that allows you to pick all of the games on a given day. You can access this from any page on the service using the “FanFeedr Pick’Em” link above the search bar.
  • Adding a user’s winning percentage after their picks on the Leaderboard, so you can see who is a “volume” winner and who is picking accurately
  • Reduced posting a user’s picks to Facebook and the service so that you don’t get overwhelmed with updates (and neither do your friends.)

Service

  • Revamped our schedules pages so that you can see upcoming games and refer to past games as well, easily.
  • Fixed sharing by email so that the links work properly
  • We are up to 6,500 content sources for your reading pleasure

As always, thanks for all of your support, and please tell your sports-enthused friends to try out the service, Feedr of the Fans

Jan
22

Release 47 is in the wild

And robust like single-field Ethiopian dark roast, ground before your eyes.


The big deal this week are widgets, as we have a single page where you can generate widgets for your favorite team or player, or for your favorite city/town/suburb.

Improvements in search

Other material, warmed directly in the FanFeedr oven:

Have a great weekend, thanks, FanFeedr

Dec
18

Version 42: Release Lite

Unlike Coke Zero, this doesn’t do unusual things to your teeth.

To wit:

  • General user experience enhancements
  • Better NHL coverage
  • We revised the “Top Blogs” on the home page to reflect smaller and mid-tier blogs
  • Widgets are now up and running, and you can customize them 20 ways ’til Tuesday.

More next week, and have a great weekend, FanFeedr

Sep
25

R30: Live scores are…live!

It’s been a pretty good week here at FanFeedr HQ, what with the Giants beating the Cowboys last Sunday, the President in town this week, this nice fall weather and all. Did I mention that the Giants beat the Cowboys last Sunday? Boy, that sure is a big stadium, isn’t it?

Ah, yes. Well, then — to business! New features this week:

  • Live scores and boxscores. Now the games and boxscores pages both reflect in-game progress. As a bonus, we’ve split up the games page into NCAA conferences and soccer leagues, so it’s easier to navigate to the games you’re most interested in.
  • League scoreboard. On every league page you can now keep track of today’s games as they happen. For the NFL and NCAA football, the games are this week’s games — no use looking at today’s games on, say, Wednesday.
  • Widgets. Now you can create widgets out of the content feeds for your favorite teams, players, colleges and leagues and place them on your website or blog. Or your friend’s website or blog, assuming they like the same teams as you do. Or not.
  • More content sources for our college fans, including college newspapers, blogs and hometown media. If you don’t see enough news about your favorite college teams, check back — we’re adding more all the time.

We’ve got more updates coming soon, so please check in now and then. And we do ask once again that you keep us honest via the Feedback button on every page.

Talk to you soon,

Your friends at FanFeedr

P.S. Notice how I didn’t even mention how the Yankees were the first team to get into the postseason.

Jul
30

Widgets

We have them, and they are going to be on team and player pages throughout the site.

Here is an example of a Yankees Widget AND a Red Sox widget, lest we offend either team’s fans.

FanFeedr New York Yankees widget

FanFeedr Boston Red Sox widget

And the incomparable Albert Pujols

Thanks, FanFeedr

Jun
01

Protected: The first draft of our widget

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