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54 new sports released!

By HeiaHeia team | Published: July 23, 2010
We’ve just added 54 new activity types to HeiaHeia, based on user requests! We now support a total of 340 different types of “sports” ranging from road biking to skydiving and rug washing, from roller derby to zumba and synchronized skating. New sport types added today: Freediving, Streetball, Roller derby, Springboard diving, Infrared sauna, Wheelchair [...]
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Report: HeiaHeia down-time on 12th July 2010

By HeiaHeia team | Published: July 13, 2010
As many of you noticed, HeiaHeia.com was down yesterday evening between 19:34 and 02:45 (early morning today, Finnish time). The service outage was caused by a hardware failure at our hosting provider (the company from whom we rent virtual servers to run HeiaHeia.com). It took about three hours for them to get the system up [...]
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Map privacy settings

By HeiaHeia team | Published: July 5, 2010
You can now define the privacy settings separately for maps attached to training log entries. Maps can be shared with 1) nobody 2) your HeiaHeia friends 3) all HeiaHeia members 4) 1-3 and external services like Facebook. If a map is shared on Facebook, it’ll look like the attached screenshot with a couple of cool [...]
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Mainstream media coverage

By HeiaHeia team | Published: July 2, 2010
A couple of fun media stories from this week: YleX, a nation-wide youth focused radio station from Finland, covered us in their Surffilauta show. The story is in Finnish, but there’s a hilarious Heia-Heia song (at 2:34) which translates universally. ; ) Eesti Päevaleht, a leading newspaper in Estonia, covered us in a story referring [...]
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Facebook app facelift

By HeiaHeia team | Published: June 29, 2010
We’ll be re-writing our Facebook app over the coming weeks. Here’s the first taster: HeiaHeia entries on Facebook are now richer & more visual. The new style is already in use for the first users, all of the user base should be migrated during today. Our Facebook app users: just log an exercise & tell [...]
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Half a year of HeiaHeia.com!

By HeiaHeia team | Published: June 29, 2010
We celebrated our 6 month anniversary on 21st June! Or rather we realized this milestone a week after it happened. ; ) It’s been a great ride with lots of highlights: over 250 000 exercises logged, nearly 50 000 cheers given, over 25 000 comments made, thousands of user requests for improving the service, great [...]
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Quarter of a million workouts logged

By HeiaHeia team | Published: June 24, 2010
We’re happy to announce that we reached 250 000 exercises logged in HeiaHeia.com today! Last month’s top 10 activities were cycling, running, walking, gym, stretching, jogging (for the more relaxed runners ; ), swimming, walking the dog, football, and golf. The tail is long, as we support around 300 different activities. On the development side, [...]
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New HeiaHeia app in Nokia’s Ovi Store

By HeiaHeia team | Published: June 15, 2010
We’re happy to announce that we now have a SIS file available in Ovi Store supporting S60 3.1 devices: Nokia 5700 XpressMusic, Nokia 6110 Navigator, Nokia 6120 classic, Nokia 6121 classic, Nokia 6124 classic, Nokia 6290, Nokia E51, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E71, Nokia E90 Communicator, Nokia N76, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8GB, Nokia [...]
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Get your own public HeiaHeia URL!

By HeiaHeia team | Published: June 14, 2010
We’ve just launched public profile pages in HeiaHeia! The public profile is a way to share an overview of your activities with the world: besides your name and icon, the public page will include your training goal, the activities you like most, your records and highlights, as well as your latest activity, and your TOP [...]
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New feature in our API: Map support

By HeiaHeia team | Published: June 10, 2010
As of today, our API eats GPX files and HeiaHeia presents them as routes in the feed and in individual entries! For the lucky ones who don’t speak in three letter acronyms: this means that you can track your outdoor activities with a GPS device & if your tracking app supports HeiaHeia as a destination [...]
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