August, 2011

Vail Resorts has updated their EpicMix app to allow users to track their ski trips and share photos with friends. Similar to Nike+, a chip in the user’s ski resort access card can be scanned at various points on the ski trip to create a pseudo-map of daily activities. The users need not use their phone to “check-in”, as the chip automatically uploads activities to a website that can be accessed via desktop or mobile internet. “From the applications, users can also keep track of where their Facebook friends are at each of the resorts, create leaderboards to compare accomplishments, send private messages to organize meetups and share their activity with their social networks on Facebook, Facebook Places and Twitter,” reports Mashable.com.