mepath.com started it’s evolution to a lifestyle magazine user interface today with our before Beta0.7 release.   The home page, opens with five sports where daily photos, videos and blog posts are displayed.  To select a different sport, click on a lifestyle sport.  Don’t see your favorite sport?  Click on the Add/Edit link to select from a range of sports.  If you still can not see the sport you are after, why not use the feedback button located on the right hand side of the screen to tell us the sport that you would like to see listed.

The feedback service is provided by GetSatisfaction .  Not only does it give us, mepath the opportunity to communicate more effectively with users of the website, fellow mepath community members can learn or answer questions, potentially faster than me, the developer of mepath.com .

Thank you to all those users that have tested our OpenID and Facebook Connect log in pages.  Your feedback has been invaluable and we look forward to receiving more of your feedback.  It’s much appreciated.

Cheers

James

The activity stream on mepath.com has expanded to include video.  Each sporty activity stream starts with photos, then video and then a list of blog posts, all are up-dated on 24 hour cycle.  The mashup of content types has made each sport stream more instantly identifiable and while you can go to flickr and youtube to view the same content having it all aggregated in one place provides a convenient way to discover information on a daily basis from the world of sport.

My current favorite streams are the skiing activity stream and the triathlon activity stream.

Triathlon is a new-ish sport that consists of three other sports, swimming, cycling and running.  A triathlon is usually run with those sports in the order written.  Being made up of other sports gives mepath both a challenge and opportunity.  The challenge, a triathlete maybe blogging about their swimming and a pure swimmer will also be blogging about swimming.  While a triathlete will have an interest in all swimming the post from  triathlete swimmer maybe more relevant, for example, triathlete have to swim in chopper and usually outside harbours, loch/lakes or rivers etc.  And that is the opportunity we will start to bring to the site, give users the ability to filter blog posts on the context they would ideally like to priorities their reading on.  Of course we call this lifestyle linking.

My swimming activity stream today brought a post on swimming technique .  What I really find beneficial about this information is that it is authored by a fellow swimmer and in this case a triathlete too.  He sets the background that us fellow master swimmers recognise and the post acts as a reminber on what to concentrate on next time we hit the pool.

James

I’m a month or so into viewing the skiing activity stream on mepath.  While skiing is my favored winter sport, it is freeskiing that gets me full of excitement.  Skiing away from a ski resorts, the effort of hiking up to the top and the thrill of skiing virgin snow etc.  The skiing activity stream has provided me with blog posts of fellow enthusiasts.  Not only are there so many skiing opportunities away from the big ski resorts the bloggers also usually document the local guide they know or have found.  And we can all share from the excitement and thrill of viewing the photos and videos posted and posted in context.

Having all the information on tap when planning a vacation must hold great opportunity, location, guide to social activities.

James