This will be the last access statistics review for the first generation of ffindr. This version, live for almost 16 months now, will be replaced by the end of the week. The functionalities now available on the public beta are final, the only changes until the release will be bug fixes (if you still find any, please communicate them). In the meanwhile the popularity and usage of ffindr grows continuously: More than 15,000 pages have been...

It has been very cold and rainy in Paris this weekend, ideal conditions for getting some programming done. As a result, the beta progressed hugely and will be ready for launch in about two weeks time. The next generation of ffindr brings a bunch of changes with it, most notably: A new link section in the ultilinks style, thanks to Peldi for the inspirations and its name. The links listed there replace the recurring events; all events...

Worlds this year showed that Ultimate Frisbee is on the rise in South America, especially in Colombia. After ten years without participation, Colombia sent teams to five of six divisions (only Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Japan and the United States had more teams). Both their Open and Women teams made it to the quarter finals, and also their Juniors achieved impressive results with a fourth place for the girls and a fifth for the boys. This...

I'm happy to announce that the new ffindr is finally out, as a public beta available at beta.ffindr.com. Feel free to play around with the site, and don't be afraid of breaking something. All data is backed-up, so go ahead and create accounts, events, links, etc. just to see how it feels. What's new? Full redesign World map of upcoming Frisbee events Global search for events/tournaments and links Ultilinks functionality Partnership with FFDF (just like with BULA and FrisbeEco) Improved interface...

In September I started the featured tournament series with a post about the 10th Monkey Foo. There have been special posts about the EUCS and the UPA Club Championships, but now I'd like to get back to initial idea of this series of articles: presenting a truly special Frisbee tournament by interviewing one of the organisation's core members. Today we talk about the CFC -- or Coman Fruta Cabrónes (eat fruits, bastards). This weekend features the...

Loads of work and loads of progress on the major update of ffindr. The core functionalities had to be redone in order to be in sync with the new version 1.1 (and 1.2) of the underlying symfony framework, and this turned out to be quite some work. Two time-frames have been set to ensure that the new version goes live quickly: a public beta at beta.ffindr.com before November, 24 the final release of the new version before...

This year, the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) introduced a new World Cup Points Scoring System to rank nations regarding their Ultimate Frisbee strength. Based on the results of this year's Worlds in Vancouver, each country got a score for their performance in the three divisions Open, Women and Mixed. In the following you can find the current WFDF world ranking, in brackets the position in Open, Women, and Mixed as well as the assigned...

This post is dedicated to the unquestioned highlight of the annual Ultimate Frisbee event calendar: the 2008 UPA Club Championships. Read on if you ever wondered what UPA means, why you haven't played there (yet), and why North America is a step ahead of the rest of the world. The UPA Club Championship Series, which began in 1979, is the largest and most prestigious Ultimate tournament series in the world with over 600 competing teams. The entire series...

Loads of progress has been made during the last weeks on the new ffindr version. Sadly this is still invisible for you, and it'll take me still some weeks more to go live. In the meanwhile ffindr thrives and prospers, the number of people accessing the site is climbing constantly. Following Alexa, a well-known company that ranks sites based on a combined measure of page views and users (reach), ffindr ranks number 1,685,046 world wide --...

Today the Fédération Flying Disc France (French Flying Disc Federation -- FFDF) launched their new website. The FFDF chose ffindr to power their event calendar section. Their website features three calendar categories regarding upcoming Frisbee events and tournaments, each of them is a customised ffindr RSS feed: a Frisbee calendar for France a calendar for Europe a world Frisbee calendar Integrating ffindr's Frisbee event data on a website is pretty straight forward, and certainly 100% free. The blog...