A while ago my sister got me onto MapMyRun. I don’t run seriously and because I always run wierd routes in different cities I like to know how far I went.
Updating MapMyRun tonight it offered to publish my training long to some of my favorite news feeds, Twitter and Facebook (coming soon).
I love this! But it could be cooler. Imagine if I could choose to expose my Windows Live Messenger presence using the IM Control and people could search for a route, and then IM with the person who submitted it to see if they want to go running together... way cool.
The only downside is I have to give them my password as they don’t use some type of delegated authentication (like OAuth).
sidenote: Interestingly when I was posting my run, twitter was down, this will be a test of MapMyRun's engineering prowess if they drop it on a guaranteed delivery queue so when twitter comes back up my activity appears.