Err, I’m not sure why we haven’t done this in the first place, but anyway, the documentation is now located at api.foller.me (yes, it still redirects to PBWorks, but perhaps we’d like our own address some day ;)
We’ve also sent out two requests to ProgrammableWeb.com as a Mashup and an API, hoping to get aproval.
Hey there, I’ve got a few announcements for you today, the first and biggest one is (as you already understood from the title of this post) – the API has been released! Wohooo! Yes, you can now develop your own apps, widgets, gadgets, plugins getting the most out of Foller.me. The API is public, free, no application required, no API key required, totally open to the world! Also, you’ll be so surprised at how simple it is! Take a look at the Foller.me API Documentation Wiki.
Now, the other announcements is that we’ve simplified the relations crawler, as there was no need to show 200,000 maps points, so we’re basically back down to ~ 500. We just thought that nobody would go through all the pages of @mashable’s followers geo locations ;)
And we’ve also shutdown the followers insight section that was released a few weeks ago. Those numbers just make no sense, and hey, we’re trying to keep Foller.me as simple as possible, and we do believe that it’s your apps and widgets that will help us grow together and hopefully take down that [beta] label next month!
P.S. We’re working on a WordPress Foller.me widget, and will release it under the GPL license. Just to give you a simple example of how it may work ;)
Good luck and happy coding!
Just a quick note that we’ve moved all our static stuff to Amazon S3, so the bookmarklet has changed its address. The old version is still working, but we’ll shut that down in a few weeks, so make sure you get your new one right over here: Foller.me Bookmarklet.
Thank you for being up to date,
~ @kovshenin
Well what do you know? Amazon’s EC2 works like magic for Foller.me and a few great updates are already here.
As promised, the Foller.me Followers Geography Beta 2 is here. The 500 followers limit has been lifted thanks to the new relations crawler. Now all the followers are spread on a restructured and paginated map.
A new Followers insight table give you a quick overview of the Foller.me Profile’s followers. This new level of depth (‘the followers’ followers’) is represented in the form of statistical data, which can help you assess the overall quality of the profile’s followers – the amount of updates, and the followers of the latter). This is just a basic representation and we are working on a graphical interface with much more in-depth and complex information.
Foller.me rundown has moved over to @fmrd and now with a little surprise for tweeps that get 1st place every 12 hours.
Thank you for being with us and witnessing the evolution of Foller.me. Stay tuned for more updates by following @follerme. Questions, suggestions and ideas – appreciated.
