Birds & Birdwatching
Google Search Integration v3
Today, we released version 3 of our Google Search Integration.
Bird Species
Bird Families
Bird Sightings
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bird.ly the new domain name for Birds & Birdwatching
bird.ly is the domain name that links directly to Birds & Birdwatching Facebook App. Users needed a quick way to get to our app and bird.ly is the solution. Just type bird.ly on your browser and you are in.
What happens to bird.im?
It is here to stay and serves a different purpose, to aggregate Birds & Birdwatching different platforms.
Short urls created in bird.im already run in bird.ly, new urls will only run on bird.ly.
Every week until the end of the year we are releasing a new or upgrading a feature every week.
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New Feature: Bird Videos Library
Now live on Birds & Birdwatching bird videos via YouTube. You can now view and link new videos relevant to each species. Soon we will support other video suppliers. All videos are linked to original, therefore we don't violate copyright.
Start by viewing Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise
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New Feature: Sightings in Your Facebook Stream
Now you can broadcast your sightings to your friends via Facebook Stream. Help others see rarities and other important birds. This is an opt-in feature. Please send your feedback. Below is an example of a sighting by me.
Start today adding your sightings... Birds & Birdwatching
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Twitter v2: Sightings Updates
Today, we changed slightly the way we update sightings via twitter, making them more agile.
- Removed " | map";
- Added hastag "#birds";
- Geo tag in all future updates for new Twitter api version;
- Better hashtag for taxonomy.
Below is comparison of the new and the old version
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Birdwatching on Facebook: Eyeing API response and error rates for a social app
Birdwatching on Facebook: Eyeing API response and error rates for a social app
About about 2 hours ago - by scott | posted in: Case studies | tagged with: api, facebook, case study, example, response rates
We spotted a great Facebook app in the wild.
Bird.im's Facebook app - apps.facebook.com/birdwatching - brings birdwatchers together to share and discuss their latest finds.
This is a very well designed and full featured app - enabling sharing of bird photos, locations, discussions and connecting passionate enthusiasts with similar interests. The Facebook platform at it's best.
The Birdwatching Facebook app provides an API for Facebook to consume when the user performs 'one-click' AJAX actions such as adding a bird, a country, or a photo for a spotting. This streamlines entry creation by offering an alternative over a simple form and directly improves user engagement as users create and share more entries. In the future, an iPhone app that enables entries from the field will also consume this API.
Hugo and the bird.im team (@birdim) use Apigee to measure API response rates and errors. (see how Apigee calculates API response rates and API error rates in previous entries).
Thanks to Hugo for all the great feedback on our Apigee Feedback forum!
via apigee.com
Thanks apigee team for featuring our app.
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Reaching 2.2 million pages views w/ New Features
Reaching 2.2 million pages views a month. We have introduce several features that reduce the number of page views. CDNs have been introduced and AJAX for parallel requests...
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