f! Blog archive for May 2008

Being a real web application from the outset, ffindr is subject to constant improvements and changes. A blog hasn't been priority for many month, but finally it's up and running: Welcome everybody! I mainly want to use this blog as a channel to give this application a more personal touch by writing about less formal things than events as well as about people who regularly contribute announce and explain recently introduced features, as well as presenting existing features...

ffindr is a web 2.0 tool, meaning that it is collaborative. The content's quality, i.e. information about Frisbee events, depends entirely on the community. And you are the community! A few days ago I removed the necessity of being registered and logged into ffindr to add events. The fact to add events anonymously certainly facilitates sharing of Frisbee event information, but this also has its prize: more work for the moderators who need to check the provided...

Being a web application, ffindr is available to everybody all over the world, all the time. This sounds sweet, but it's not enough to really address oneself to everybody. Although the Frisbee world is pretty Anglophone, it's not nice to exclude those who don't speak English. And since this application wants to be nice to everybody (i.e. nice to watch, nice to use, nice to have... just nice), ffindr is available in several languages. Currently we...

Every now and then I get some insightful mails with ideas to improve ffindr. I thought that this blog is the perfect place to present and discuss those with you -- the actual users of ffindr. So feel invited to leave a comment including your preferences about what functionality you want to see next, and/or what feature you think is totally useless. This post was triggered by Justin from Madrid, who wrote a long and interesting...

Recently I wrote about how ffindr relies on the community to get high quality Frisbee event data, I now like to write about how the community can rely on ffindr to get high quality Frisbee event data onto their websites. From the very beginning on ffindr was designed to: enable gathering of Frisbee event information with the help of many contributors, and to offer an easy-to-use Web interface to give the data back to the users, as well...

ffindr is happy to announce its first big partnership in the Frisbee circus: beachultimate.org aka BULA now relies for their world beach ultimate calendar on ffindr! Have a look at the BULA blog talking about this new collaboration: Ffindr: what a great service! To make this special partnership happen, ffindr implemented a BULA administrator functionality that enables sanctioning of ffindr events. You might have noticed that some events show the BULA logo next to there name....