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The Foller.me API is Now Public!

kovshenin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:30:22 +0000

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

Public beta 2 now LIVE!

kovshenin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:28:30 +0000

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

Now Live: Followers Geography Public Beta

kovshenin — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:23:49 +0000

Hey everyone. I know you’ve been waiting for this moment and due to hard work this weekend we’ve managed to release the Followers Geography beta to the public, hence the announcement, although you might have already noticed it working yesterday evening (there’ve been a few tweets too ;)

Anyway, this Followers-on-a-map thing isn’t going to stop at 500 (current limitation) followers. We’re taking this a step further in the upcoming months and hopefully give you a full working Geo-based Tweeting Machine.

Check out Followers Geography in the Foller.me Extend section for more information.

We’ve launched! And it’s official!

kovshenin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:53:09 +0000

Wohoo! Foller.me is now officially declared open for public! Hurry! Call your friends! Call your friends’ friends! And their friends too :)

Yes, everything’s going according to plan, and we’re releasing a couple of more features this month after we beta test on our development version. Our next goal is 5000 unique profile views, then perhaps 10,000 and after that.. Well I guess we’ll go top-secret, for many reasons (no, not for advertising ones).

Hope you all have a great day and enjoy your stay at Foller.me!

P.S. Thanks to everyone who has somehow commited to the project, and we’ll be sure to give you shoutouts later this week. Keep the suggestions coming, tweeps, you’re great!