posted March 6, 2009 by trek7k

Just in time for the “unofficial” start to the MTB season (don’t forget to set your clocks forward this weekend!) singletracks is rolling out new features and updates:

Vimeo Video Support

Singletracks now supports Vimeo trail videos! If you’re an online video connoisseur you know Vimeo videos are higher quality than most YouTube fare and now you can share your Vimeo trail videos on singletracks. Just find the trail where you video was shot, click the “Post trail video” link, and send us the Vimeo link. Thanks to ckdake for pushing for Vimeo support, watch this video of Yellow River to see the difference:

Yellow River – Creek Side from Jeremy Bower on Vimeo.

Twitter

Check out singletracks on Twitter! Admittedly we’re a little late to the party but at this point I think we’re still just “fashionably late,” no? Follow us to get the inside scoop on upcoming product reviews, find out where we’re riding, and read about features we’re working on for the site. Now we just need one of those iPhones so we can twitter from the trail

Gravatars

We’ve integrated Gravatars into the comments on photos and bike shop reviews (with even more integration coming soon). It’s simple (and free) to set up your avatar at gravatar.com and the cool thing is that your avatar will automatically follow you to other sites that support Gravatars (just be sure to sign up using the email address associated with your singletracks account).

Over time we’ll start to phase out the avatars currently being used on the site for a few of reasons. First, Gravatar.com provides some great tools for cropping and sizing avatars that we just can’t match. Second, Gravatars are portable meaning you don’t need to update 10 different websites when you get a new haircut and want to change your pic We also really like the simple look and feel of Gravatars. Finally, Gravatars load super fast unlike the avatars created under our current system.

Phew, thats it for now – time to get out and ride in this amazing weather…

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Tags: gravatars, twitter, vimeo

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