New Project Released: allrunn.in/g
I came across a deal one day to be able to by a years long domain registration for $1. I couldn't resist. Since the new "thing" now seems to be able to spell something clever with the domain extension, I started my search to have my very own non-.com. I quickly found out that the only way to have an .it extension was by living in Italy, and the person who already owned runn.in was asking $4000.
So some time in September I spent $1 of my hard earned cashed and bought http://www.allrunn.in. This was exciting for me because Movable Type was also releasing beta versions of there newest platform; Movable Type 5. I started using my new domain to test the new platform and just playing around. I eventually started building a digg.com style website for running. I could create post and then anyone could vote them up. The top voted articles that were at least a week young, would make it to the front page. MT 5 also makes it pretty easy to connect via facebook. I figured out how to make it so people could sign in as their facebook profiles.
In early January, I released it to the public. I associated a twitter account and began submitting running news. I quickly started adding more features. Viewers could create accounts, follow other people's account and also see what individual users were doing on the site. I also created the feature for anyone to submit their own news. The site became more and more social.
The site is still in beta because it has a lot of work that needs to be done. I still need to design a forum for it and work out about a hundred small kinks. Fortunately enough, the site is a ton of run. It's a new project for the nerdy runner in me.