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Bronze-Silver-Gold re-shuffled

User feedback: Our user level system has been a bit unclear so far. And it’s been a bit too challenging to climb the ladders. Also, people don’t like dropping to silver after a hard-earned gold! Addressing the first issue, here’s how it works: we’re calculating a score on your general activity in HeiaHeia with our [...]
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Report: HeiaHeia down-time on 12th July 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

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

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

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!

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

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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Get your own public HeiaHeia URL!

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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HeiaHeia in Ovi Store

We’re happy to announce that our first delivery to Nokia’s Ovi Store is now available at http://store.ovi.com/content/32392 This app supports the following devices:  Nokia E71x, Nokia 6788, Nokia 5730 XpressMusic, Nokia E55, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia N86 8MP, Nokia E52, Nokia N96, Nokia 6710 Navigator , Nokia E72, Nokia N78, Nokia 6720 classic, Nokia 6650 [...]
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A solution for Firefox problems

We have identified one solution for the instability problems with Firefox on Windows. The F-Secure Browsing Protection toolbar is causing Firefox crashing for users of e.g. FarmVille, a lot of other Facebook games, and HeiaHeia. A quick solution for the problem is to switch off the F-Secure plug-in from the browser, but please make sure [...]
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