f! Blog archive for November 2009

This weekend was a special one: UPA and UltiVillage provided the world with a three-day live stream from the UPA Nationals in Sarasota, Florida. The webcast featured great quality and competent commentators (although less funny than Steve and Tom from BlockStack.TV), and only went down occasionally. A great experience, and all that was missing were replays. Let's hope to have them next year. All the twittering and tweeting during the UPA Finals lead to a twitter...

An exciting upgrade just happened: FFindr now allows for very easy Twitter integration in tournament and link (Team, Club, Blog, Organisation, etc) pages. Twitter? That's a free service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets (read more...)! Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters. They can be send via the Twitter website, SMS or external applications. Thanks to their briefness, Tweets are ideal for status updates and live scores....

It has been quiet regarding the FFindr featured tournament, the last article dates from July. Firstly because I'm running out of inspirations (feel free to propose your favourite tourneys!), secondly because I'm currently more focussed on development rather than on writing (feel free to propose yourself as a columnist!). Anyway the series has not been forgotten, instead it is opening up new fields: for the first time an Indoor tournament is featured. I'm talking about the...

Mark Earley, editor of the IFDA Newsletter, recently interviewed me for the newsletter of the Irish Flying Disc Association. Over the past couple of years the IFDA has produced this Newsletter, mainly focused on events in Irish Ultimate, but with some bits from overseas also. Inside the interview labelled "FFound! : The story of FFindr.com" are loads of first-hand information that nobody ever asked before. Have a look at the brimful November 2009 issue to read...

This week the Torneo Eterna Primavera happens in Medellin, Colombia. The Eternal Spring Tournament or TEP is a professionally organised, high-level invitational Ultimate Frisbee tournament uniting teams from all over the Americas: the Open division will see Furious George (Canada), Sockeye (USA), Caobos (Venezuela), Kie (Colombia), Domino (Dominican Republic), and Ultimate Argentina to name just a few. The women's division features Riot (USA), Traffic (Canada), Aerosul (Colombia), Voladoras (Venezuela) among many others. A pretty impressive starter...

I am happy to announce the partnership of FFindr and the WFDF World Junior Ultimate Championships 2010 in Heilbronn, Germany. Mark Kendall, Tournament director of WJUC 2010, contacted me beginning of September showing interest in a tournament registration powered by FFindr. Now, 10 weeks later, the deal is official. FFindr will bring its technical expertise into play, ensuring a smooth online registration for all participating nations and players. In return, FFindr will become an official sponsor...