On the initiative of Patrick from BULA, the domain name Ultilinks.com is now linking to ffindr. The once very popular Ultilinks website has been down since October 2006; it was about time to replace Alan Kay's quote "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." — that decorated the message about the webserver being "currently disabled". Many thanks for the confidence and trust to both Patrick and Ultilinks-creator Peldi!

It's not a secret that Ultilinks — the "mother of all Frisbee related websites" — has been very inspirational for ffindr, and this merger will definitly effect the further development of ffindr. I had the chance to get a little interview with Peldi, the creator of Ultilinks:

How did Ultilinks emerge?

I started Ultilinks in the fall of 1998. At first it was a collection of ultimate-related sites that I had made for myself, and then I noticed that the 2 current lists of links that were there at the time were either not very updated or nowhere near complete. So I set out to become "the ultimate starting point" (that was my tag-line at the time).

Ultilinks was always my side project, and during college I dedicated a lot of time to it. And at some point it was just huge, ask any veteran ultimate player and I bet they'll remember it.

How did the site evolve?

Ultilinks, and Ultimate in general, is how I spent all of my free time, for years. Anything that I thought might be useful to the ultimate community, or just cool, I would add to Ultilinks.

I think 2000 was really the peak of Ultilinks.com - the site had become a big portal with thousands of visitors a day, with a picture-of-the-month, a monthly interview to a prominent ultimate feature, a web-based tournament page creator, tutorials....

After that, around 2001, I took Ultilinks back to its roots, just focusing on links and tournaments.

How about Ultimate and yourself?

I played from 1994 to 2004, and I still occasionally play once in a while. I played mostly in Italy: Bologna and Rimini. I also played in California a bunch, at UCSD for a year and in a few club teams in the Bay Area. Right now I am focusing my energies on getting my very young little software startup off the ground: Balsamiq!

Thanks for your time Peldi, and I promise that ffindr will continuously evolve and continue the great work that Ultilinks did between 1998 and 2006!