What did the BaconMarathon just do?!

After months of racking our brains, we have officially pulled the "the invite only" lock down and made the site available! As of today, everyone can now become Persistent Fans of the stuff you love! (at least we'll call it BETA)

Feel free to go to http://www.persistentfan.com and play around.

To give you some ideas to get started, here are some of the topics Bacon is watching:
animal collective
artie lange
cheech and chong
Coming To iPhone
Conan O'Brien
fillmore SF
gilmor gang
guy smiley
Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret
Japandroids
jersey shore situation
koko cocktails
LCD Soundsystem
mavericks surf
Philadelphia Phillies
philly cheesesteaks
pitchfork tv
silversun pickups
techcrunch
The Simpsons


We've have been eating our own stew here for a couple months so we're very excited to see what you think.


Take care,
The BaconMarathon Labs Team

Mike (Bacon) & Dave (Marathon)

Introducing... (to anyone that loves to help early development)

After a little hiatus, we are full steam ahead with a brand new website called PersistentFan.com that we think users will find to be a lot of fun.

How did we get here?
From previous blog entries you can read about the steps we took towards developing top3Clicks within Facebook's "walled garden". After plenty of market testing it became painfully clear that the changes made to the user experience of the Facebook developers platform hindered ease of use for our users. Also, with the announcement of Facebook Connect, for us, it became increasingly more costly to take advantage of the initial goodness Facebook had once offered.

What is PersistentFan.com?
PersistentFan.com searches for terms from specific sites and notifies you to watch as new content that becomes available for that term over any length of time. While watching terms you can also monitor and participate in Twitter chatter of that topic.

Here are some of the new features users are in complete control over:

• Quick search of topics to see what content is available
• Maintain a topic list of terms that are important to you
• Get notified when new content become available (User controls notification frequency)
• Share cool videos on Facebook wall and participate in Twitter conversation
• Watch the Twitter chatter for specific topic
• Available as a website and modified iPhone website
  

So, as you can see, we rolled up our sleeves and took the steps to keep some top3Clicks concepts (and added a ton more) as a stand alone website.

As far as Facebook is concerned for us, we have enabled Facebook Connect and plan to continue to add features leveraging the 'new goodness' Facebook now provides.

Take care,
The BaconMarathon Labs Team

Mike (Bacon) & Dave (Marathon)