Author: ericblue

Jawbone UP API Discovery

Reading Time: 2 minutesOn 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.

Weekly Lifestream for November 27th

Reading Time: 3 minutesShared JacksonInFiveMinutes – FasterXML Wiki. Posted Weekly Lifestream for November 20th. Shared FuseOverAmazon – s3fs – FUSE-based file system backed by Amazon S3 – Google Project Hosting. Shared Syncany – Open-source file synchronization and filesharing application. Shared Insecurity in the Jungle (disk). Shared EnigmaCurry. I’m happing for my increase in followers… Welcome 🙂 But, I’m…
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Weekly Lifestream for November 20th

Reading Time: 3 minutesPosted Weekly Lifestream for November 13th. Shared Install Picasa 3.5 in Linux. Back from a fantastic week of vacation with my family. I’m simultaneously very relaxed and incredibly behind with too much to do! 🙂 [ericblue] RT @eric_andersen: "Traditionally, you sit down with a vendor and they show you a 5- and 10-year road map.…
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Weekly Lifestream for November 13th

Reading Time: < 1 minutePosted Weekly Lifestream for November 6th. Satisfaction! Wi-Fi on my Virgin flight courtesy of @boingo … [ericblue] Its nice to be able to use the systems you build ….. Especially while in the air 🙂 [ericblue]

Weekly Lifestream for November 6th

Reading Time: 2 minutesPosted Weekly Lifestream for October 30th. Don’t worry, I haven’t abandoned Twitter, I just feel like I have Social Media fatigue these days [ericblue] Putting off upgrading to IOS 5. Is it worth it? [ericblue] Any #QuantifiedSelf er’s interesting in the Jawbone UP? Looks cool… [ericblue] Reaching the limits of MySQL… Cassandra, Hadoop/HBase or other…
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Weekly Lifestream for October 30th

Reading Time: 2 minutesPosted Weekly Lifestream for October 23rd. RT @RWW: SoundCloud and Last.fm APIs Mashed Up into New Music Discovery App http://t.co/uApB7sx9 [ericblue] Just installed Ubuntu 11.10 .. do NOT Like Unity, but impressed with Gnome 3 [ericblue] I love running on a system that has a meager 24GB of Ram [ericblue] Talk about good (lucky) knowledge…
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Weekly Lifestream for October 23rd

Reading Time: 2 minutesMy #quantifiedself Show & Tell presentation on my experience with Lifelogging & Location Tracking @ the LA meetup http://t.co/XYXz0Udl [ericblue] Posted Life Logging and Location Tracking. Posted Weekly Lifestream for October 16th. Last chance to backup or migrate your old delicious bookmarks from the original site (expires 10/21) http://t.co/eptRMJ45 [ericblue] RT @leftyshields: Forget your iPhone…
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Weekly Lifestream for October 16th

Reading Time: 2 minutesPosted Weekly Lifestream for October 9th. Had a good run tonight.. slowly picking up momentum. Ran over 4 miles – 40 minutes non-stop. Building up duration/endurance.. speed next [ericblue] RT @QSLosAngeles: Looking forward to our next QS@LA Meetup on Sat 10/15 at the @CoLoft – http://t.co/x3vJ2RMC [ericblue] Just started reading Conceptual Blockbusting: A Guide to…
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Life Logging and Location Tracking

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s been a while since I’ve posted. I’ve been busy working on my Quantified Self-related interests: working on my personal tracking projects and organizing the QS Los Angeles meetups. Yesterday I gave a show & tell presentation on my experiences with life logging and location tracking. Many of you who read the blog are probably…
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Weekly Lifestream for October 9th

Reading Time: 3 minutesPosted Weekly Lifestream for October 2nd. RT @roygrubb: Study from Yahoo shows that 50 percent of all tweets come from just 20,000 users http://t.co/HzEyC3xL [ericblue] I have nothing to tweet other than to say Happy Taco Day… oh and Vodka Day too! 🙂 [ericblue] RT @pickover: The average IQ of PhD/MD degree recipients is about…
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