We’re glad to announce that we’re getting a desktop app developed by Denis Volokh using Adobe AIR. It’s called the Foller.me Lite, which is a lightweight version of Foller.me but with a few extra features that aren’t yet implemented on the main website. This is just a teaser and the download will be available soon. Meanwhile, take a look at these screenshots:

Yes, finally, Foller.me has reached yet another level of development; a well-deserved “Beta 3″ tag has been placed to mark the beginning of new work stages. Foller.me is now running in the last beta stage (we hope) before we take off that nasty label.

The improvements that have been made from Beta 2 are:

1. The Followers Geography is running stable, and loses it’s beta tag thanks to the efficient Google Maps API.
2. A new Followers Rate section has been added, which displays a profile’s followers growth rate. Big shout-outs go to @boris from TwitterCounter.
3. You can now follow a profile directly from Foller.me via OAuth; no need for your Twitter username or password. Simply click “allow” and viola.
4. Collapsible/expandable sections are now personalized via cookies (finally)!
5. The Foller.me Rundown (@fmrd) has been optimized after a critical fail, when we tweeted the rundown once every minute during an hour via @fmrd a few days ago.
6. A major improvement in caching has been made.

There’s still much to be done. All ideas, comments and suggestions are always appreciated. :)

~ @SoulSeekah

A month ago, we submitted Foller.me to the ProgrammableWeb Directory and today we’re proud (and excited) to announce that Foller.me has been added to ProgrammableWeb inside the Mashups Directory. Moreover, we’ve been featured as Mashup of The Day. And guess what? We’re not intending to stop. The Foller.me API shall be submitted very soon as well. In the meantime, you can rate and comment Foller.me @ ProgrammableWeb Mashups.

~ @SoulSeekah

Oooh! The Foller.me API is finally up and running, and already documented here: Foller.me API. We’re anticipating and eagerly waiting for your first widgets, gadget apps and plug-ins developed with the Foller.me API. A great example that is already being used by some blogs is the Foller.me powered widget for WordPress developed by none other than @kovshenin. This simple widget uses the Foller.me API to load up the latest Twitter messages for a specified user, simple and nice eh?

If you have developed or trying to develop some interesting Foller.me API-based tool – let us know. If you have any questions or suggestions – let us know. Let us know about yourself so we can let the world know about you :)

~ by @SoulSeekah

Yes! We finally did it! The WordPress masters of disasters have given us a brand new look, same old bird!… I always believed that the “White as Milk” free template from the WordPress.org directory would be here for like a few weeks, which unfortunately lasted for over two months *sigh* well, it’s all gone now anyway, so goodbye old milk ;)

Still having probs here with the widgetized area (there are four of them actually), especially the Twitter part, which was lagging yesterday due to Twitter fail. Seems to be up and running today, so everything turned out quite good, and remember – we always appreciate your comments and suggestions.

Thanks & always yours,
~ @kovshenin

As you might have noticed we’ve got ourselves a GetSatisfaction account so feel free to use the feedback button on the profile pages (or directly to our GetSatisfaction profile) and post anything that’s on your mind.

Thanks,
~ @kovshenin

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!

~ @kovshenin

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.

~ @SoulSeekah

“Oui”, “yes”, and very soon “ja”! Foller.me can now recognize special French symbols and French stop-words. This means that all you fantastic French Tweeps out there can now analyze your followers and easily decide to follow back or not.

Thanks to web-media coverage from Presse-Citron.net and TweetNews.de Foller.me has set new aims, seeing the purpose of multi-language support. With Russian and French support already added and German, Spanish and Arabic ready for take-off, Foller.me will endeavor to add languages like Hebrew, Maltese and Hindi (maybe even Chinese :lol:). If you would like to see Foller.me’s support for your language – feel free to mail us your stop-word lists.

Thank you for your support.

~ @SoulSeekah