R52: One year anniversary edition, now with Twitter Authentication

Posted: March 5th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Aggregation, Facebook integration, Game, New Players, New Tweets, Release, UX, twitter | View Comments

Hello and good morning/afternoon/evening.

This week we enabled the ability to sign up using Twitter as well as Facebook, so if you would like to use those credentials as the primary way you login to the site, no problem. You can also post material to and from Facebook, but you will be known on the service primarily by your Twitter handle.

You can try it out by going to the homepage and logging in with Twitter. If you already have an account with us, you can add your twitter credentials whenever you make a comment and post to twitter or if you share via Twitter.

Facebook

You can follow your favorite teams on Facebook now, and that functionality is exposed on the team pages (in the left column, the blue button.)

Some examples of team pages on Facebook:

These feeds publish headlines, scores, boxscores, photos and other updates directly on Facebook.

Pick’Em Game

  • We fixed the badging so that there is only one Commissioner, and so that Newbies show up in the right place

Content

UX

And we are up to 7,000 content sources, including all of the material submitted in the past month.

Thanks for your support, and let us know if we are missing anything, here.

FanFeedr

Release 47 is in the wild

Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Game, New Players, Release, Search, UX, Widget | View Comments

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

The mid-Winter goodness of release 46

Posted: January 15th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: API, Facebook integration, Game, New Players, Release, UX, twitter | View Comments

We have completed work on a bunch of material, in order:

  • Added ability to make API queries based on location (e.g. give me all of the news and information for San Francisco)
  • Twitter accounts for the entire Premier League (even Liverpool)
  • We have 6,081 content sources, thanks to our man Greg Schneider

FanPick updates

  • We are showing a running tally of wins and losses in FanPicks on your profile page
  • Bug fixes to the FanPicks game
  • Your FanPick items now publish to Facebook so your friends can join you (you can shut it off by deleting it from your Facebook profile)
  • Top fans in the NFL, NBA and other sports are ranked by their ability to predict games using FanPick
  • We have a Leaderboard for all of you prognosticators

Next week we will have more gaming improvements.

Have a great weekend, FanFeedr

Release 22 with the good stuff is up

Posted: July 31st, 2009 | Author: Ty | Filed under: API, Aggregation, Distribution, New Leagues, New Players, Release, UX | View Comments

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