July 2011
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iDoneThis blog: Ernesto Ramirez, →
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Meet Ernesto Ramirez, Ph.D student in public health, Quantified Self organizer, and disliker of to-do lists. Ernesto uses iDoneThis to feel great about what he gets done every day, to motivate himself to do more, and to create a record of his life. He made the following word cloud to show his…
June 2011
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WatchPersonal messages from Japan (by @Twitter) via the Twitter Blog.
Imagine being able to visualize all health messages. What would that look like?
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A t-shirt that analyzes your sleep - TNW Gadgets →
Sleep seems to be the next hot topic in health research. Makes sense as we spend roughly a third of our lives with our eyes closed. I think we are the at the beginning of a proliferation of different methods to record the quality of sleep. The real question will then become, “How can we help people sleep better?”
CycleStation 0.5: We Have The Technology to... →
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OK, a bit melodramatic in the title, yes. CycleStation 0.1 had its heyday, I logged about 40 miles on it (tracking much of it via the #cyclestation hashtag on Twitter). I felt as though the ergonomics wasn’t great and the bike I chose is a bit cheap unstable, so it felt a little wobbly…
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“We are inventors, we are makers, we are doers”
– Barrack Obama via @deeplocal
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Mary Canady - CycleStation 0.1: Pedal While... →
marycanady:
I’ve been disturbed by recent (some would say obvious) studies that your metabolism slows way down when you work at a computer and may in fact shorten our lifespans. What are those of us who rely heavily on computer work to do? I met Ernesto Ramirez from UCSD at a BarcampSD (think: camp…
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Why Quantify?
This is a response to this excellent post by Scott Peppet over at Health 2.0 regarding the downsides of Quantified Self.
As a card carrying member of the Quantified Self movement and self-identified number nerd I wanted to offer up some thoughts.
I agree that we are living in a precarious time where data about ourselves that was once private, and in most cases unobtainable, is becoming public....
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TargetWeight App partners with Withings wireless... →
Looks like a cool collaboration to help people meet their weight loss goals.
Are you helping your users be AWESOME? →
Great post by Kathy Sierra regarding social media and gamification.
“Ideas that come from the ground up can be stronger and more effective for...”
– Xavier Leonard
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“Water, water everywhere, but nary a drop to drink”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge via Harvey Fineberg at HHS/IOM Health Data Forum
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Live Notes From Health Data Initiative Forum... →
“Just make people better at something they want to be better at. When your goals...”
– Kathy Sierra & Bustr Bensn
(h/t Diana Kimball)
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“Want to keep people invested in their health? Use their data to weave compelling...”
– Wellovator
“Gamification: “Don’t automatically think of badges and points, think...”
– Robert Willington
“The power of the mobile web will soon put native mobile apps to shame. What will...”
– Chief Wellovator
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APIs are fun
On February 11th FitBit released their API into the wild and let developers get to work. Since then there have been some very neat integrations:
Health Month: Set custom step goals
Joshua Stein: Low battery notifier
Earndit: Turn physical activity minutes into coupons for cool stuff
FitBit Daemon: Update FitBit account with Twitter and Nike+
John McLaughlin: Lets you “suck” your...
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“I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not.”
– Someone smart. 