Fanzter Blog » Announcements http://fanzter.com/blog Fanzter is a software development company with a simple mission: to create the world's best consumer Internet products. This is where the Fanzter team posts company updates, talks about new products, and keeps you up-to-date about our company. Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:34:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Happy Birthday Coolspotters!! http://fanzter.com/blog/2010/05/07/happy-birthday-coolspotters/ http://fanzter.com/blog/2010/05/07/happy-birthday-coolspotters/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 15:13:35 +0000 Aaron LaBerge http://fanzter.com/blog/?p=703 Happy 2nd Birthday Coolspotters

Coolspotters turnes 2 years old today. Head on over to the Coolspotters blog post and leave us a comment. Thanks

]]> http://fanzter.com/blog/2010/05/07/happy-birthday-coolspotters/feed/ 0 Our little baby’s all grows up! http://fanzter.com/blog/2010/03/30/our-little-baby%e2%80%99s-all-grows-up/ http://fanzter.com/blog/2010/03/30/our-little-baby%e2%80%99s-all-grows-up/#comments Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:15:31 +0000 Aaron LaBerge http://fanzter.com/blog/?p=579 Today we’re removing the “Beta” tag from Coolspotters and launching a new new features. You can read more about it on our Coolspotters blog post. Enjoy.

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Streaks is a motivational calendar for your iPhone and iPod Touch. It is a simple, smart way for anyone to track the consecutive days it takes to reach a certain goal. For each day that you accomplish your task, you mark it on the Streaks calendar, motivating yourself to keep the streak going. In our integration of Mustache into Fanzter, there have been a few hoops in re-publishing the application through the App Store. During this time we’ve appreciated all of the requests for Streaks’ return, and we’ve been moving quickly to respond.

So today, we’re happy to say that Streaks is available once again. It is now optimized for the 3.0 OS and has many other performance enhancements as well.

Download Streaks now or visit our product page to find out more.

We hope you enjoy!

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You can read more about it here:
http://coolspotters.com/blog/2009/12/16/coolspotters-rolls-out-new-e-commerce-partnership-program

]]> http://fanzter.com/blog/2009/12/16/coolspotters-launches-new-e-commerce-partnership-program/feed/ 0 Coolspotters is one of the Top 100 Websites of 2009 http://fanzter.com/blog/2009/08/06/coolspotters-is-one-of-the-top-100-websites-of-2009/ http://fanzter.com/blog/2009/08/06/coolspotters-is-one-of-the-top-100-websites-of-2009/#comments Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:40:48 +0000 Eric Kirsten http://fanzter.com/blog/?p=226 Launched just over a year ago, Coolspotters has grown to be the definitive source for the products and brands used by today’s biggest celebrities. All of us at Fanzter have been very excited about this growth, and we work every day to ensure that our community is empowered to share, discover, and interact around everything they’re passionate about – in a way not found anywhere else on the web.

Recently though, we took a breather to appreciate an incredible honor presented to us by the editors at PC Magazine, who named Coolspotters as one of their “Top 100 Websites of 2009“.  

We greatly appreciate being considered, but we promise not to slow down! Keep an eye out for some exciting releases and developments coming this fall! Thanks again for the award, PC Mag, and a huge ‘thank you’ to the incredible community of users we have on Coolspotters!

-Eric

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We’re excited to announce today that Fanzter has acquired Mustache, Inc., a Richmond, VA-based software development company. Mustache’s founder, Jon Maddox, will be joining Fanzter full-time and will lead technology and product development for the company. When we started Fanzter, we committed ourselves to hiring only the best people, launching the best products, and partnering with only the best companies. Our acquisition of Mustache is consistent with this theme and, in Jon, we are excited about the opportunity to add a brilliant entrepreneur and product-builder to our team.

Mustache has created several popular iPhone applications such as Summizer, Streaks, and Brackets. If you’ve ever tried any of these apps, then you know how elegant and useful they are. We’re proud to add these products to our growing portfolio.

This acquisition gives us an incredibly well-rounded product suite – a family of applications that are informational, entertaining, and a little bit addictive (we hope). It definitely takes Fanzter to a new level of excellence, and we’re looking forward to what’s next. We can guarantee it won’t be boring.

-Aaron

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Newsweek Module

Hop on over to Newsweek and check it out.

-Aaron

If you’re interested, here’s the official press release about the partnership.

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Opportunity Ahead

Today I’m excited to announce that Fanzter, Inc. recently closed an investment round with our friends and new partners at Steamboat Ventures. Steamboat is a top-tier venture firm, and we believe their expertise and approach to growth can help us develop great, new entertainment properties. Dan Beldy will be joining our board of directors, bringing incredible experience as both an investor and entrepreneur.

Coolspotters‘ growth over the last year has been amazing. To date, our growth has been entirely viral with no money spent on marketing or PR. And the product was developed by a relatively small team.

With this new partnership and funding, we are in a very strong position to accelerate the growth of Coolspotters, continue enhancing and extending the product, and begin building new, next-gen products. Apart from those items, we plan on staying lean and focused.

Over the next year, you can expect to see some exciting developments from Fanzter, Inc. as we try to capture the world of opportunity ahead of us. Stay tuned.

Thanks for being with us on this adventure and we continue to appreciate all of your support.

-Aaron

If you’re interested, here’s the official press release about our Series B funding.

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Coolspotters won the Open Web Award for Best Fashion Application

The 2nd Annual Open Web Awards is a multilingual, international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology and honors the top achievements of websites and services in 26 categories. Other winners include Twitter, Digg, Youtube, Flickr, and Wikipedia. This year there were over 50,000 nominations, and almost 200,000 votes.

We are incredibly proud because, in addition to the People’s Choice award, we also won the Blogger’s Choice award. We would like to thank everyone that nominated and voted for us. We couldn’t have done it without you!!

So as we end 2008 on a high note, we wish everyone a very happy and joyous holiday season!

See you in 2009.

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We still need your support. The final round of voting starts today and ends on December 14th, at midnight. You can help us by voting for Coolspotters at Mashable.com (and if you really like us, you can vote more than once each day until the 14th).

Thanks again. We hope you have a joyous holiday season!!

-Aaron

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