España es el país donde hemos crecido más rápidamente este año. Debido a la gran cantidad de peticiones y ofertas de traducir HeiaHeia al Español decidimos darle alta prioridad a este idioma – y ahora está listo. Sólo debes hacer click en “Español” en la parte inferior de nuestra página de entrada para cambiar el [...]
Yesterday’s release was a success: we broke our daily records in new users, server load and exercises logged during yesterday! We’re still settling login issues for some of you, but please be patient here, everybody should be up & running soon. The most popular feedback topic after yesterday’s release was the weight log. Thanks for [...]
Iltalehti.fi, the largest news website in Finland, published a great piece on the Top 20 sports in Finland in 2010 – based on HeiaHeia’s statistics. In a related article, Iltalehti covered our growth in 2010, e.g. having users in 134 different countries and over 30 000 users in our native Finland. Here’s the Top 20 [...]
HeiaHeia.com turns one year today, 21st Dec 2010! Happy anniversary to everybody from the team! The roundest number available for celebrating this is the number of exercises logged in HeiaHeia, which will cross 1 000 000 in the coming days. We’re currently running at 989 647… A couple of juicy picks from the list of [...]
We have a bug in HeiaHeia’s Facebook app related to sharing exercises from HeiaHeia to Facebook. The most common root cause seems to be changing your FB password, which disables sharing. Unfortunately, we’re not able to fix this properly right now, as we want to concentrate on getting our Xmas release out first. BUT: if [...]
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 [...]