tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2012:/start//7/tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009:/readwritestart//7.16097- 2012-02-03T20:01:40Z Comments for FanFeedr Gives Sports Fans Personalized News Aggregator Movable Type 4.35-en tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009:/readwritestart//7.16097 2009-08-19T00:27:56Z 2009-08-19T03:59:53Z FanFeedr Gives Sports Fans Personalized News Aggregator In a fairytale case of ask-and-ye-shall-receive, we issued a call for sports-related apps, and startup FanFeedr answered that call. FanFeedr allows users to select topics of interest and find (hopefully) relevant scores, photos, news, videos, and blog posts. It also plays nicely with Twitter and Facebook. Their search function was buggy (we kept getting redirected... Jolie O'Dell In a fairytale case of ask-and-ye-shall-receive, we issued a call for sports-related apps, and startup FanFeedr answered that call.

FanFeedr allows users to select topics of interest and find (hopefully) relevant scores, photos, news, videos, and blog posts. It also plays nicely with Twitter and Facebook. Their search function was buggy (we kept getting redirected to "all content" rather than info for our search terms), which makes it difficult to adjust the firehose of available information, but the concept is nevertheless intriguing.

]]> When a user steps outside the FanFeedr site proper, content is framed at the bottom to allow for cross-site commenting and sharing.

Signing up to use the site is a simple, two-click Facebook Connect process. Users can follow one another on the site, and FanFeedr also pulls in feeds from pro athletes, such as the official L.A. Lakers Twitter feed. Users can moreover choose to be fans of teams or players; those allegiances are then displayed on the user's profile.

Also, very little content, from in-site comments and status updates to shares and comments on third-party sites and links, seems to live only on the FanFeedr site; almost everything is or can be pushed to Twitter and Facebook.

Hopefully, we'll see more integration with more social sites in the future. According to site rep Ty Ahmad-Taylor, "We are about to integrate with Digg, UberVu, and Bit.ly to give an even more comprehensive view of trending topics in the world of sports using our 'Hotness' algorithm."

So far, FanFeedr is available as a free iPhone app, and their API is available and in use by several developers.

Overall, a cleaner UI, more mobile capabilities, better content filters, and better search functionality would be nice to see, but FanFeedr is a good step toward a network- and league-agnostic, do-it-all sports app.

Give it a shot, and let us know what you think in the comments.

]]> tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009:/readwritestart//7.16097-comment:152991 Comment from Crowdsurfer on 2009-08-18 Crowdsurfer I am a pretty big sports fan and I just spent some time on this site. Honestly -- and I'm not trying to be a jerk here -- this looks like a site built by a team that is moderately familiar with web technology (though definitely not expert) and who just really wanted to do something related to sports so they could quit their day jobs. The concept is solid enough. Feeds are powerful, for sure. But this first version is way too buggy and not useful enough for me to hold out much hope that these guys are the ones who are going to solve my frustrations as a web-dwelling sports lover. Somebody will do it, and I'm seeing glimmers of coolness elsewhere around the web. I just don't think it's going to be Fanfeedr that breaks through. Why? The engineers just seem to be good enough.

]]> 2009-08-19T02:18:06Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009:/readwritestart//7.16097-comment:152994 Comment from rs gold on 2009-08-18 rs gold http://www.runescapesell.com But this first version is way too buggy and not useful enough for me to hold out much hope that these guys are ones who are going to solve my frustrations as a web-dwelling sports lover.

]]> 2009-08-19T02:27:25Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009:/readwritestart//7.16097-comment:153136 Comment from forex on 2009-08-19 forex http://www.fx-bar.com It was about time someone came up with a good sports aggregator! Thanks.

]]> 2009-08-19T13:14:23Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009:/readwritestart//7.16097-comment:153692 Comment from Trigeia Twins on 2009-08-21 Trigeia Twins http://www.Trigeia.com not a bad site! Lets see what they will produce in the future. FanFeedr Aims to Hit a Home Run With Comments http://www.trigeia.com/article.php?id=86182

]]> 2009-08-22T02:17:10Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009:/readwritestart//7.16097-comment:161780 Comment from Dallas on 2009-10-08 Dallas Fanfeedr seems like they have a lot of great ideas and I wish them luck.

We have been doing sports news aggregation for a while now.
Check us out at http://sportspyder.com, we aggregate 3300+ sports news sources all hand picked and nearly 3000 twitter personalities.

]]> 2009-10-08T22:04:43Z tag:www.readwriteweb.com,2009:/readwritestart//7.16097-comment:203844 Comment from sikis hikayeleri on 2010-04-12 sikis hikayeleri http://www.sikishikayeleri.org/ How could we bilieve that the time of 'Web 3.0' is coming?
Wolfram Alpha just launched, but we don't know what will happen in the search engine world.
It seems that twitter conquers everywhere. But it truly change my life?? NO.
Many widgets come and gone

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