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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My latest discoveries on personal knowledge management. Discover what PKM is all about, learn about the Semantic Web, and find out how to use Wikis to help track all of your important information.
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.
RT @AlexGoodall: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify – Thoreau [ericblue]
Had a very existential movie experience yesterday.. kicked-off a sleepless …
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RT @_alan_chapman: So #osamabinladen is dead, and his body ‘buried at sea’. Really. [ericblue]
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Shared Heart rate and Heart Fitness Evaluation | SensCare solution for iPhone.
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RT @radar: Build your own version of Panic’s status board http://bit.ly/ft5Utt [ericblue]
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A weekend of wine tasting followed by a 5K run …
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New Blog Post – Firefox Scrapbook Hacks – Viewing and Saving Webpages from …
Just finished running 5k non-stop; first time I did that (or tried) in a long time. Time wasn’t great but I finished feeling fairly strong [ericblue]
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Posted Fitness Tracking Platform: Update on Progress.
New Blog Post: Update on my personal informatics app – Fitness Tracker (screenshots) http://eric-blue.com/?p=1407 #quantifiedself [ericblue]
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Posted Kicking iTunes to the Curb.
New blog post: Kicking iTunes to the Curb! http://eric-blue.com/2011/03/06/kicking-itunes-to-the-curb/ Goodbye DRM + slow sync times! [ericblue]
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