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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Quantified Self is a collaboration of users and tool makers who share an interest in self knowledge through self-tracking. There are number of posts on my device “hacking”, open source development, and my own quantified experiments.
Posted Automatically sync & import Garmin TCX data.
New blog post: Automatically Sync & Import Garmin TCX data http://t.co/yaZOHH3 [ericblue]
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Wondering if it would be possible to integrate their ANT-based iPhone sensor from http://t.co/G9HES9k with Fitbit? @openyouorg [ericblue]
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Over the last few weeks, I’ve been gradually increasing the supported devices for TRAQS.me. As of today, I’ve successfully integrated FitBit, Withings, GPS data (GPX files), MyZeo, and now Garmin Heartrate monitors (TCX files).
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Have a nice SQL query to tell me my average and max calories burned by hour/time of day. Will send SMS reminders to get myself moving. #qs [ericblue]
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RT @TRAQSme: Added some demo pages (login, dashboard, reports & maps) at http://t.co/eVUHGEw [ericblue]
Posted Weekly Lifestream for June 19th.
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Shared 45 New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience – Smashing Magazine.
7 days straight in the office… need a vacation again [ericblue]
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Posted Weekly Lifestream for June 5th.
RT @radar: Google Correlate: Your data, Google’s computing power. @vanessafox pops the hood on this new tool http://oreil.ly/klnXA3 …
Happy to see reference to Bush & the Memex at #QS2011 – inspired my own system http://j.mp/l1v9Py [ericblue]
Very cool & extreme quantifying… Ranking …
Posted Weekly Lifestream for May 22nd.
I’m attending The Quantified Self Conference 2011, 28th-29th May 2011 in Mountain View http://t.co/8Wutwj8 via @lanyrd [ericblue]
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Shared Leaflet – a modern, lightweight JavaScript library for interactive maps by CloudMade – Features.
Shared Importing the GeoNames Dump into mysql.
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