Collabofit

By popular demand, we’ve added 10 more fitness activities to Collabofit that you can use to track your fitness stats. Some of these are gym activities and some are home and fun activities.

New Collabofit activities:

• Basketball
• Benchpress
• Curls
• Hiking
• Housework
• Pullups
• Racquetball
• Stairclimber
• Videogames*
• Yardwork

* Videogames???

Here are the top 3 reasons why we think it’s useful to track your time playing videogames using Collabofit:

1. Lots of people love playing videogames, and it is common to actually work up a sweat while playing them. i.e. there is _some_ fitness benefit (we think…)
2. By treating videogames as a fitness activity worth tracking, hopefully people who like to play videogames will look at some of the other activities you can track using Collabofit, and will realize that something as simple as taking a walk is worth more points than playing videogames. Maybe the same competitive drive that leads some players to play for hours on end will also lead them to get out and do something else useful with their time and get some sweet fitness points for doing so. And that’s a good thing, right?
3. What other fitness site actually gives you points for playing videogames? How cool is that!

If you want an invite, email gserafini [at] gmail.com with the subject: “Gimme a Collabofit Invite Please” and we’ll hook you up. (Open public signup is coming soon, but sending us an email so we can send you an invite is currently the only way you can get an account.)

Now get your Dance Dance Revolution on and Wii your way to a slimmer trimmer you!

The cool photo of people playing a Nintendo Wii is by delta_avi_delta, hosted on Flickr and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.

If you like the idea of getting points for playing video games, please digg this article and / or vote it up on reddit. Thanks!

This sweet comic is by Randall Munroe at xkcd.

Well, it’s been about a month and a half since our last major release. Our apologies for taking so long to get a new release out, but we have been busy coding and didn’t want to put out this release until it was ready.

Here are the major new changes and features in Collabofit 1.1:

• Upload a custom picture - We’ve discontinued support for using Gravatar images for now until they get their new server up and running since they’re slowing down our page loading times. When you upload a picture to Collabofit it is automatically resized for you.
• Team pictures - If you’re a team manager you can upload a custom picture for your team.
• Better user badges, and some new badges you can earn: For points: 1k, 10k, 100k, and 1 Million point badges
• Improved weight graphs - you can now see a trend line showing your progress
• New My Teams page - You can now get to all of the teams you belong to in one easy location
• Persistant sign in - You will stay logged in now until you click the Sign Out link. No more having to log in every time you want to enter a stat each day.
• Improved use flow for My Account page
• Improved security model of backend API system
• Lots of backend changes that will make adding new features much easier in the future
• Over 50+ major and minor bugs squashed

Let us know what you think. We’ve got a list of new features that we’ll be working on next that we’re really excited about.

Leave a comment if you have any feature requests you’d like to see in the next release.