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R64: Tracking NBA Free-Agents and European Football Transfers

Ty — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:46:06 +0000

We heard your request, especially from Knicks’ followers: we want to be able to track all of the free-agent/football transfer news on a per-team basis. Problem solved.
We have a new filter on each team and player page that gives you just that: all team changes, all the time. Some examples . . .

NBA free-agent news

Premier League Football transfer news

La Liga Football transfer news

One last new feature: we have added the ability to customize your feed on the team pages so that you can see just the information that is important to you. When you go to a team or player page, you can turn on some, all or none of the Filters in the left column.

Additionally, some bug fixes:

Twitter suppression on the home page is permanent. If you select it, it will stick even if you leave and come back.
Added a link to “Hot Pick’Em games” in the right column of the home page to all of the Pick’Em games.
Improved the frequency and type of stories that we publish to our popular Facebook team pages, like the LA Angels or New York Yankees.

Another great week of work by our talented engineering team.

Thanks, FanFeedr

R52: One year anniversary edition, now with Twitter Authentication

Ty — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:46:53 +0000

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

We added the mildly unintentionally funny Ozzie Guillen’s twitter feed for your consumption
You can also get Bill Simmons, the Sports Guy
And Deadspin, so that you don’t have to go hunting for your favorite sports writers
Baseball schedules for 2010 are up on the team pages for MLB

We reformatted the team and player pages so that they look good (that is, not like a ransom note) in Internet Explorer 7 and 8, which are super finicky about style sheets
Roster pages have been cleaned up to look like our super fresh schedule pages

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

Ty — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:05:50 +0000

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.

The sports widget home page
Sample widget for sports in the lovely Oakland, CA
Sample widget for the scandal-plagued Tiger Woods

Improvements in search

You get filters on the left-hand side if you search a topic like Mark McGwire steroids

Other material, warmed directly in the FanFeedr oven:

6,100 sources for your sports news and information
You can make your FanPicks with only one click
We deleted the “#Ottawa” hashtag from the Senators’ Twitter feed because some Ottawans got persnickety about it.
We fixed sending stories by email, and you can now send stories to more than one person
Minor tweaks to Pick’Em, in general and you can go here to pick this week’s NFL championship games

Have a great weekend, thanks, FanFeedr

The mid-Winter goodness of release 46

Ty — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00:30 +0000

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

Ty — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:27:12 +0000

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)