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I just came back from the Amazon Cloud Conference. I am more convinced than ever that we made the right decision a year ago to move to the Cloud. Amazon now has hundreds of thousands of businesses from 190 countries now using their infrastructure. Every day they add more compute power than what Amazon needed […]
Here is the recording of the Webinar we just did for the upcoming release of our Race Director UI.
RunScore, one of the most popular Timer and Scoring software packages, has done a nice of doing a simple integration with RunSignUp to show Splits. This video shows the details of how to do this for timers with RunScore:
We have some exciting changes that will make RunSignUp easier and more powerful for our Race Directors and Timers! We are getting ready to roll out a new User Interface for you to use. We are holding a Webinar on Monday 11/19 at 7PM Eastern where we will preview the changes and explain the roll out schedule. […]
One of the features race directors love are the quick graphical reports they get from RunSignup. Here are some examples (there are plenty more):
40 Years of Results Runners are always interested in history! One of our race directors decided to take real advantage of our new Results Posting to put up the past 40 years of results. This is free and easy to do. For best results, get the native data files from your timer and upload them. See this […]
We have added a very simple way for you to add Sponsor images and links to your race information page on RunSignUp. This feature uploads your images and puts them in a standard sized 175 X 175 pixel box in a special Sponsor Section on the Race Information page – right above the default map […]
We did a very interesting upgrade today on RunSignUp. In technical terms, we added something called Session Replication. And we did this across two Amazon Availability Zones by duplicating our memcache session servers. What this means is that if one of Amazon’s Cloud data centers goes out, users are automatically switched to the other data […]
RunSignUp is designed to let races do registration right on their own website! This helps races build their own community, and makes it far simpler for runners. Here is a video showing some examples of races who provide registration right on their own websites: If you want to do this for your race, follow this […]
We are continuing to expand the RunSignUp API as we get more requirements from partners and from our own efforts to develop Mobile Apps. Of note, we have our first partner (who we will announce next week) who uses the new OAuth access. This industry standard makes it easier and more secure to connect with other […]
We now enable gift certificates on every race! This works very simply. Anyone can purchase a gift certificate for any amount for a race. We default to the current fee for that event. The recipient’s name and email address are entered, and they are then notified of their gift. They can then use the special […]
We still have a lot of work to do, but the progress so far is really good. We have a great test suite designed where we can deploy any number of test servers to emulate any number of runners registering for a race. We can also deploy any number of webservers to handle the load. […]
