f! Blogarchiv für Juni 2008

It's a new month, and it's time for a little excursion to ffindr's access statistics of May 2008. Since it's start in September 2007, the traffic coming to ffindr is has increased steadily. ffindr served almost 12.000 pages to nearly 3.000 visitors -- compared to 3.700 pages and 600 visitors during ffindr's first month. The average ffindr user is 29 years old, wears black glasses and loves pasta... just kidding, I won't go this much into...

Summer finally arrived in Europe, with it comes the Ultimate Frisbee season. The 4th Windmill Windup in Amsterdam is going to happen next weekend, shortly after the legendary Boston Invite, then the huge Potlach, and not to forget the season's highlight: the World Ultimate Championships in Vancouver. I'm currently working on the planning of our little one-day Hat tournament in Paris, which underlines once more my desire for an automatic subscription process on ffindr. This would...

Also the Frisbee world follows the global trend of an ever increasing environmental awareness: Frisbee club Olympique Ultimate Frisbee Tours (OUF) from the centre of France recently launched an eco label called frisbeEco. Events that follow the valuable advices of their Charte are now labeled on ffindr with the frisbeECO logo, just like this year's edition of the Open de Touraine -- the tournament where this eco movement started four years ago. Don't hesitate to...

ffindr welcomes the 250th registered user: bommie from Belgium! Roughly speaking, ffindr counts one newly registered user per day since its launch in September 2007. The user's origin underlines ffindr's global approach: the 250 users are spread over 35 countries! You might wonder why one should create a free account on ffindr, and that's an even more legitimate question since adding new events doesn't require an account anymore. The answer is simple: it all depends on how...

The season is under way, and more and more results are posted on various mailing lists and in varying languages. This is a good lead to recall one of ffindr's major goals: serve as an archive of past events, giving quick access to results. In order to make this vision come true, ffindr should not only be used before the event takes place to expose to a highly targeted public, and to quickly create free tournament websites; but also...