We’re thrilled to announce a development, marketing, and distribution partnership between HeiaHeia and Muuvit Adventure, an award-winning programme for aiding school children to move more and learn while doing it. The initial target markets will be Germany and Switzerland, where Muuvit co-operates with local authorities, football clubs (e.g. HSV Hamburg, VfL Wolfsburg and FC Zürich) [...]
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve crossed half a million exercises logged on HeiaHeia.com! The 500 000th entry made in the service was “Paddling, 1h 45min”, by Hanna-Leena from Finland. A big cheer from the HeiaHeia team to Hanna-Leena! As a snapshot of what kind of activities people log into HeiaHeia, here’s a list of [...]
A lot of HeiaHeia’s users are utilizing Facebook in some way. Linking together the two services requires actions on both sides (which is an obvious usability challenge), so we put together a little check-list on how things work and what your options are. We will also add these tips to our Quick Guide. There are [...]
HeiaHeia has had a relatively high share of female users ever since our launch in Christmas 2009. We think that being appealing to both genders is a key proof point of our idea: bringing positive motivation for keeping fit. This positive motivation is driven by cheering each other and sharing positive feelings. We didn’t want [...]
Here’s a pretty popular request: many people want to enrich their entries with maps (GPX files). We have an API for doing this automatically, which is used already e.g. by eCoach for Nokia N900 – we are working with a number of other parties, more news to follow on interoperable products! For those who want [...]
After numerous phone calls, faxes, and emails from the White House and the Buckingham Palace, we’ve finally come about to support the “imperial system” or the “American system”, whichever term you prefer. You can now choose to use the metric system (km-m-kg-Celsius) or the American system (mi-ft-lb-Fahrenheit) in your HeiaHeia entries! You can switch the [...]
This news piece is einfach super – we now support German, the most widely spoken first language in the European Union! If you spot any problems with the translation: typos, funny expressions, grammar mistakes – please let us know! Big thanks to Päivi for helping us out with this! We’re working on a couple other [...]
Wow!!! Last week was off the charts in terms of new user registrations, exercises logged, cheers given, comments made, load on our servers, and just about everything else we measure. ; ) Thanks everybody! Exciting to see, what this week brings up… PS. All kinds of cool new stuff is in the making, please keep [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]