Posted: August 30th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Facebook integration, Game, Mobile, Release, UX, iPad | View Comments
A bunch of fixes and improvements . . .
iPad/iPhone users
Facebook Pick’Em game
- First, do you know that we have a killer Facebook Pick’Em game? You can predict the outcome of English Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga and Serie A games, directly on Facebook, with your friends.
- We are using Facebook Credits directly, and you don’t have to go hunting for currency to play the game
- We added live scores to the game, so you can check your scores as the games take place
First-time user experience
- We deleted the welcome pop-up screen, because many of you complained about it. She’sa gone.
There were other bug fixes. We hope that you are enjoying your Summer, and remember, if you like the website, you can also get FanFeedr for your iPhone, iPad, and Android.
Thanks, FanFeedr
Posted: August 20th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Facebook integration, Game, Release, UX | View Comments
Folks,
We have been working on this for most of the summer, so we are quite excited about the opportunity around being able to play Pick’Em directly on Facebook. We are launching with European soccer, so that you can predict the outcomes of games against your friends or everyone on Facebook, all for the opportunity to be the commissioner for the Premiership, La Liga, Serie A or the Bundesliga.
We simplified the interface, and we use Facebook Credits directly to make it easier for you to continue playing the game if your luck leaves you for a short bit.
We hope you enjoy playing and look forward to your feedback about the game, as we will roll out improvements every week.
Please share it with your friends as well.
Remember, you can pick your favorite Premiership, La Liga, Bundesliga, and Serie A teams right here, and you can compete against your friends on Facebook.
Thanks, FanFeedr
Posted: June 11th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Facebook integration, Game, Release, UX, twitter | View Comments
We have a lot in this week’s release.
World Cup Soccer
We also have a pretty sweet World Cup Challenge game on Facebook. Pick your favorite teams and compete with your friends in the Tournament.
Getty Images
- We have a partnership to Getty Images for their amazing sports photos, which are now live on the site.
- Here is a great example of Pau Gasol
- We are also adding some functionality if you would like to show Getty Images on your site. We will let you know when that is available.
Thanks, as always, FanFeedr
Posted: June 4th, 2010 | Author: luke | Filed under: Aggregation, Distribution, RSS, Release | View Comments
This week’s release had some fixes that make possible publishing last week’s free agent-focused news anywhere. Here are some examples from the Knicks.
As an aggregation and distribution service we make the best choices we can about what information to corral and where to send it. However we aren’t always exactly right for everyone. Accordingly, last week we added a feature that allowed you to suppress Twitter across the site, and this week we made a less visible change and now support OAuth. We will be adding this to our API documentation shortly, but if you can’t wait and want to integrate now, drop us a line.
In release-related news, this will be the last weekly release for now. We are fine-tuning our development model by adding some planning overheard and extending our development cycles to two weeks. We will occasionally do point releases with bug fixes, but going forward major releases will be every two weeks. This will allow us to continue delivering great new incremental features while we lay the foundation for bigger leaps forward.
Thanks, FanFeedr
Posted: May 27th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Facebook integration, Game, New Players, Release, UX | View Comments
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
Posted: May 21st, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Aggregation, Facebook integration, Game, New Leagues, Release, UX | View Comments
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
Posted: May 17th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Mobile, New Tweets, Release, UX, iPhone, twitter | View Comments
Release 62 is all about giving you more control over what publishes to Facebook and Twitter from FanFeedr, and how frequently.
- With that in mind, we have a new pop-up panel that controls what gets pushed out to both sites. We also made it so that you can get notified whenever you have a new follower. We won’t ever send you mails without your ability to control them. The controls can be accessed via your profile page account settings, and it looks like this:
As always, thanks for your support, and let us know if we missed anything right here.
Feedr of the Fans
Posted: May 7th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Game, Release, UX | View Comments
Obsessive readers of this blog will be glad to know that our former West Coast contingent has arrived safe and sound here in sunny Brooklyn. In fact, they’ve hit the ground running, and have prepared these new features for your delectation:
- Pick ’Em opportunities on team pages. Now you can make your game picks directly from your favorite teams’s pages.
- Game publishing settings. Speaking of Pick ’Em, now you can also change what game activity updates we publish to your social networks.
- Improved feed quality. Tuning, tuning, always tuning.
- UX touches:
- Icons for tweets. For improved visual appeal, we’ve added Twitter avatars to the tweets we list in our content feeds.
- Team colors. Likewise, we noticed that some of the team colors for scoreboards seemed a little off (no red for the Reds, for example), so we kicked that into shape as well.
Please join us again next week for another episode of What’s In This Week’s FanFeedr Release, starring the usual suspects.
Until then, we remain
Your friends at FanFeedr
Posted: April 30th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Release, UX | View Comments
Yes, we managed to add some small improvements and fix some bugs this week, but the real news is that our formerly geographically diverse development team will be joining us at FanFeedr Galactic HQ starting Monday. Doug Tabuchi, former GM, West Coast Operations, and Andy Adams, recently (and briefly) GM, Rocky Mountain Enterprise Zone, are both in the process of living for the city by relocating to New York. Finally, some new contestants for the foosball ladder!
On to this week’s deets:
- Better layouts for photos and team pages. You’ll find it easier to comment on photo pages, and get more accurate scoring information on team pages.
- Greater accuracy for local teams. We’ve rejiggered the GPS thingy again to get you the most relevant local sports news.
- Performance tweaks. Pages with lots of profile pictures should now feel snappier™.
That’s it for now — check back next week for the next installment. We’ll let you know if we found enough desks for everyone. And as always, we thank you for your support.
Until then, we remain,
Your friends at FanFeedr.
Posted: April 16th, 2010 | Author: Ty | Filed under: Release, UX | View Comments
Here at FanFeedr Galactic HQ, we always try to balance the features and content we offer with the goal of keeping the interface easy to use. Occasionally we find ourselves changing things up in small ways that (we hope) have big impacts. That’s what we’ve done with this week’s release, which offers:
- Cleaner left-hand navigation and layout gets you to the content you want faster.
- Sorting controls are simpler: you can sort by recency (the default), just like before, or by hotness, which encapsulates the stats for views, comments and ratings.
- Filter controls for content sources are now available by default.
- Drop down menus take you right to the content pages for leagues, conferences and teams.
- Other small layout changes: a wider center column, and a cleaner design for information to the right.
In addition, we’ve added a couple of other improvements:
- A filter for “Your picks” in your FanFeed. Now you can see all of your Pick ’Em activity at one go, right from the home page.
- Team records and improved standings for baseball (now that the season is underway, natch).
Of course, we always enjoy your feedback, but we’d like it this week in particular to see how our design changes are working out for you. Just hit us up using the Feedback button and let us know what you think. And we thank you for your support.
Until next time,
Your friends at FanFeedr
