Thursday, January 26, 2012
We recently spoke with Arel English (@arelenglish), CEO and co-founder of Vitogo (@myvitogo), about their integration with the Health Graph (@healthgraphapi) and how being a Health Graph partner is benefiting their business. Read on to learn about how Vitogo recreates what a personal trainer does for you using your iOS device and the web. Bill [...]
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Also tagged activities, aggregation, arelenglish, calories, coaching, evolving, fitness, fitnessfeed, gym, healthgraph, healthy, injury, iPhone, ipod, motivating, nutrition, partner, partner_profiles, personal, personal_trainer, rewards, RunKeeper, sharing, social, strength, tracking, trainer, training, vitogo, web, weight, workout
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Fitness games are an important and growing segment of the health and fitness landscape, and we’re very happy to have some several fantastic partners implementing games on top of the Health Graph (@healthgraphapi). Case in point: Nexercise (@nexercise), our featured partner this week. Bill Day: Please tell us about yourself and your company. Benjamin Young: [...]
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Also tagged analytics, Android, api, benjaminyoung, challenges, credits, developers, fitness, games, github, healthgraph, insight, iPhone, libraries, medals, mobile, nexercise, obesity, partners, partner_profiles, play, points, rewards, tracking, weight
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Monday, November 14, 2011
This October I was able to attend both the O’Reilly Android Open (@androidopen) and X.commerce Innovate conferences back-to-back in San Francisco. I wrote more about Innovate in a separate DevZone article. This time, I’d like to break down the most interesting bits of Android Open from a developer-centric perspective. Fascinating morning keynotes Android Open was [...]
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Also tagged Africa, aleksandargargenta, alexhoward, all_about_android, analytics, Android, androidshow, antialiasing, apple, apps, app_stores, arduino nfc, bestbuy, bitmaps, clairehunsaker, clip_paths, cloud, community, conference, cpu, developers, developing, dvd, ecosystem, engagement, facebook, flurry, followers, gdp, Google, ideals, interfaces, javame, jessevincent, kenya, keynotes, laptop, launch, linux, markets, markogargenta, microsatellites, mission, mobile, mobile_payments, mobile_wallet, mosolo, mpesa, nasa, news, nexus, nickfarina, open, openness, oreilly, panels, payments, paypal, phonesats, photos, principles, ram, robertstephens, rockets, sales, seanbyrnes, security, sessions, slides, smartphones, soul, space, speakers, square, statistics, stevejobs, technology, timoreilly, video, webviews, willmarshall, xcode
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Geoff Pitfield (@gpitfield) of Fleetly (@fleetly) about his company and their new Fleetly app release which now includes support for RunKeeper users via Health Graph (@healthgraphapi) integration. Here’s an inside look at how one developer keeps their users happy and healthy with the Health Graph. Bill Day: [...]
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Also tagged Android, api, apps, challenges, deletion, exercise, fitness, fleetly, health_graph, iPhone, itunes, leaderboard, lifehacker, polling, push, running, social, source, startup, training, triathlon, users, web_api, weights, withings
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We’ve been hard at work adding features users have been requesting to the RunKeeper app! Now available in both iPhone and Android versions: Auto pause – RunKeeper can automatically pause tracking when you stop moving Heart rate zone – RunKeeper can chart information from compatible heart rate monitors; can also provide audio cues to help [...]
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Also tagged activities, Android, apps, appstore, autopause, exercise, fitness, health, heart_rate, iPhone, monitoring, RunKeeper, running
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
This is the fourth and final article in my series on using Google’s App Inventor for Android and eBay web APIs to build Android commerce apps. The first article walked you through how to install App Inventor and start using it to build and share Android apps. It also discussed some of the limitations of [...]
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Also tagged Android, appid, apps, app_inventor, app_keys, bada, Blackberry, blocks, commerce, components, consoles, CSS, david_wolber, designer, developers, documentation, ebay, editor, emulator, encoded, encoding, GET, github, html, HTTP, input, iPhone, JavaScript, json, logic, market, mit, open_source, parameters, parsing, phonegap, production, profile, sandbox, sdk, shopping, symbian, test_tool, timestamp, tools, url, user, webos, web_api, x_commerce
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
RunKeeper and the Health Graph API How to improve your lactate threshold http://t.co/8ADdjWN via @runkeeper # I love @runkeeper examples like this one http://t.co/ooCgJRZ in the @fastcompany "What's Next For The Check-In?" piece # Two of my favorite apps @evernote @runkeeper mentioned in the same article http://t.co/xysok4YU # Visual of logging @runkeeper activities to @evernote [...]
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Also tagged advocacy, airfare, apigee, big_data, boston, check-ins, developers, documentation, dojo, evangelism, evernote, flightaware, git, google_flight_search, gps, headphones, ifttt, java_7, kickstarter, lactate, lanyrd, location, matthew_russell, mosolo, museum, oauth, osteology, programmers, races, RunKeeper, running, tickets, Twitter, weatherspark, web_api
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I’ve written some about Square and their mobile card reader before. Click here to read my most recent article on them, part of my alternative payment systems series. The problem is, Square’s dongle has been hacked. And hacking it is pretty embarrassingly simple to do, it seems. The gist is this: Square’s dongle plugs into [...]
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Also tagged Android, attacks, audio, card_reader, credit_cards, dongle, encryption, hacked, iPhone, mobile, mosolo, skimming, square, swipe
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RunKeeper and the Health Graph API Nice @Launch coverage of FitnessKeeper's growth, @HealthGraphAPI, and prospects http://bit.ly/qpwmDy (more: http://bit.ly/rtKwS4 @RunKeeper) # PayPal X Platform For @PayPalX, @Magento, and other developers sizing up the new X.commerce world: eBay developer resources http://bit.ly/qOlYrj # My latest: @X_commerce #Android Apps the Easy Way, Part 1: Understanding App Inventor http://bit.ly/pbIic3 http://bit.ly/pzyiN1 [...]
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Also tagged Android, apple, apps, app_inventor, Blackberry, business, cli, consoles, CSS, developers, ebay, fitnesskeeper, garmin, Google, grand_canyon, health_graph, html, JavaScript, kaibab, magento, microsoft, nokia, oracle, paypal, phonegap, platform, resources, RunKeeper, running, symbian, trail_running, web_api, x_commerce
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I’m currently finishing up a series of articles for the PayPal X Developer Network on building Android apps using Google’s free App Inventor tool. Click here to read the first article (on getting started with App Inventor) and here for the second article (using web APIs). Watch for the rest of the articles in that [...]
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Also tagged Android, api, app_inventor, bada, Blackberry, build, CSS, documentation, Google, html, iPad, iPhone, JavaScript, native, package, paypal, phonegap, samsung, symbian, webos, wiki
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