Update
The travel site was a test and we’ve pushed it into production on Bike Hugger and renamed it Community. Please join it and add your contributions.
Just in time for the Mobile Social Worldwide, our friends at Six Apart and Strangecode got a new site running for us based on TypePad Motion. This is an exciting project for us, the result of years of thought and discussion about the direction of social media and an effort to build a bigger community of Bike Huggers.
I wrote about Motion on Textura Design (publisher of Bike Hugger) last week, referencing the early Mellow Clutter™ concept, and summarized it as
“Frameworks, codebase, cloud buzzwords aside, TypePad Motion is like a freakin’ magical unicorn that fills your blog with sunshine. Connect the pieces all together, dress the unicorn up as you please, and publish content.”
And do it with community. To elaborate further, blogging is author to reader and TypePad Motion is reader to reader. Or more simply, a freakin’ magical unicorn.
Perhaps calling it a magical unicorn isn’t something that everyone will grasp (we have Ginevra to think for that descriptor), but here’s what you need to know: with the new Travel page you get to contribute to Bike Hugger. Share your links, videos, photos, thoughts and more, all from the comfort of your homes or offices. It’s a way for us to really expand our cycling community to include more, well, community.
We’ve been running Motion in MovableType form on our Latest Activity page for the past year — it’s an activity stream of what Bike Hugger is doing online. The new advances in Motion takes this a step further, allowing us to share not just what we’re doing, but what you’re doing as well.
Right now we’re using this as Bike Hugger hits the road for some global riding. Readers can share their links, tips, and suggestions as we travel, blog and ride London, Amsterdam, Prague, and India.
Later sites will include Mobile Social SXSW, Interbike, Tour de France, media events, or whatever crazy bike thing we do next year.
Six Apart explains the application further on their demo site and it’s open source.
In our typical style, we don’t ever really big launch anything. It’s running now, being revised on the fly, so please join us.
Next week, when the Mobile Social Worldwide starts we’ll post the interesting things we see and do.
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