On the front end, first, however.

• Made sure that photos publish to Facebook. They were performing erratically before.
• Major League Soccer team twitter accounts are now appearing on the FanFeedr service
• We had an issue in NCAA Basketball where Div 1 teams playing non-Div 1 teams would generate schedule errors. That is fixed.

We have spent a lot of time working on our backend this last Sprint, including

• Upgrades to our ORM, SQL Alchemy
• Upgrades to our Mako templates
• Publishing scores and the like directly out of Solr

That is it. We hope that you are having a fantastic holiday season.

Happy holidays, and best wishes in the New Year, FanFeedr

This is a pretty straightforward release: Pick’Em has been added to the FanFeedr home page so that you don’t have to search for it.

You can pick games directly on the front of FanFeedr.com so that you don’t have to go to the Pick’Em homepage.

Also, we added a new World Cup news section on Facebook.

Let us know if we can provide you with other features right here.

Thanks, as always, FanFeedr

• NCAA Tournament
  • New badges. We’ve created special badges for Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four and Championship game winners.
  • Online video links. We’ve provided integration with CBS March Madness on Demand Internet video on scoreboard and team pages, so it’s even easier to keep track of the action.
• Pick ’Em refinements
  • Game opportunities on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribers of our Facebook news pages and Twitter feeds now receive game opportunities in their feeds, so they won’t miss a chance to bet on their favorite teams.
  • Picks now appear on all games. Now it’s dead simple to keep track of your Pick ’Em record: just look up the games from last night (or the night before) and witness the fruits of your labor against the game results.
• Plus: new Facebook pages for F1 and NASCAR racing teams, RSS feeds for local area teams, and more.
• Last but not least: RSS for the home page. You can now get your personalized FanFeed delivered to your feed-reader of choice.

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:

• Bill Belichick
• Joe Torres
• Joe Girardi
• Eric Mangini (for Jets sufferers and Cleveland homers)

Other content:

• Fantastic F1 sources from our friends at the San Francisco Formula 1 Group.
• All of the Formula 1 teams
• Better golf and tennis sources
• Boxing

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

• Cricket
• Rugby
• Lacrosse
• Cycling
• Swimming

Things to enjoy:

• More and better tennis content, including players such as Federer and Serena
• More content sources (too numerous to count)
• Better racing sections for NASCAR and Formula 1 (and their underlying teams)
• Many more columnists
• Ability to post your status updates directly to Facebook

As always, let us know what you think here, and let us know if we are missing any sites here.

PS We have an insane amount of Kentucky Wildcats news and information, if that is your thing.

We just released Release 12 to the world. Goodies this week:

• College sports are now focused exclusively on Division I. Sadly, this means there will be no more stories about the Haverford Flustered Pedants.
• Conferences and soccer leagues. Now you can view content about the English Premier League, UEFA, the Pac 10 and the ACC on their own aggregation pages.
• Significant under-the-hood improvements, clearing the way for us to add features in the weeks to come. Plus now the engine’s even louder when we rev it.

We’ve also added some interface touches here and there, based on your cards and letters. Accordingly, please keep them coming via the Feedback tab on the left side of every page.

Thanks,

Your friends at FanFeedr.

And that means a bunch of things:

• The home page has changed. The first version had a little bit too much going on, so we simplified it and tried to make it more relevant. This includes providing you with a single feed of your favorite team information and social activity by your friends and people you follow.
• We also changed the name and nature of the FanFeed. It covers all of the above. To just get news, video and tweets, click on “Your Content.“
• We added colleges and universities. Right now we are showing everything, including the Division III powerhouse, Haverford College, but we will shortly focus on Div. I teams.
• We improved the way we categorize sports, so you should see more relevant material in your feed.
• We also changed the color of the sports icons that you see here, thanks to the smart talents of the super-talented Jennifer Gormley, who also provided the very Roger Blackian background for our Twitter page.

And some other odds and end that will put you to sleep but make the site better.

As always, let us know what you think via the Feedback tab on the left side of the site.

Thanks, Feed of Fans