Jawbone UP API Discovery
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Jawbone UP API Discovery
November 28, 2011 – 9:42 am | 4 Comments

On Saturday I stopped by the Apple store and picked up an UP device by Jawbone. The UP is a wristband and iPhone app that will track your fitness and sleep activity and help encourage you to live a more active life style. As with most of my Quantified Self gadets (Fitbit, Zeo, Withings, Neurosky, etc.) my first reaction was to “free my data”. Similar to my initial journey with the Fitbit, I was inspired to find an “unofficial” way to get access to the data.

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Embedding Mind Maps Into Your Wiki
July 16, 2008 – 10:48 pm | 2 Comments
Embedding Mind Maps Into Your Wiki

Late last year I enthusiastically blogged about a new service I created to let you share and embed your mind maps directly into your website.

Creating the Ultimate Personal Travel Journal
July 13, 2008 – 3:24 pm | 7 Comments
Creating the Ultimate Personal Travel Journal

Since I last posted about Vannevar Bush’s vision for a Personal Memex, I decided to focus my efforts on building an impressive personal travel journal, and share the results to illustrate the capabilities of a Memex.

Ralph Waldo Emerson On Productivity
July 1, 2008 – 9:12 pm | No Comment
Visual Understanding Environment (VUE)
June 20, 2008 – 5:17 pm | No Comment
Building the Memex Sixty Years Later: Trends and Directions in Personal Knowledge Bases
June 10, 2008 – 8:53 pm | No Comment
ThinkBase: Visual Semantic Wiki
June 5, 2008 – 11:02 pm | No Comment
Flash Slideshow Software
June 2, 2008 – 9:41 pm | No Comment
As We May Think: Creating Your Own Personal Memex
May 28, 2008 – 8:57 pm | One Comment

The memex ( “memory extender”) is the name given by Vannevar Bush to the theoretical proto-hypertext computer system he proposed in his 1945 The Atlantic Monthly article As We May Think. The memex …

Document Management Systems: SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation)
May 18, 2008 – 11:26 pm | One Comment
Semantic Wikis and Faceted Browsing: The Ultimate Knowledge Database
May 14, 2008 – 3:49 pm | 2 Comments