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 us what you think!

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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 amounts of new members joining the service every day, plenty of heart-warming comments from people ranging from athletes to participants of rehab programs – from web professionals to laymen enjoying the service, etc, etc.

We listed our near-future development plans in our previous blog post. A number of user requests are still left for the medium term plans – and please keep on sending new requests to help us improve the service even further!

HeiaHeia for the next 6 months!

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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, we’ve been busy with our currently most popular user requests: #1 getting more entertaining and informative stats out of the training log data, #2 special new entry tools (we’ll save the details of these for the launch announcement ; ), #3 enriched user level system, and finally more sports (we have a backlog of about 20-30 new sports right now – sorry for the delay in deploying them!). We’ll be launching these & some smaller surprise features during the following weeks – not in this exact order, more likely in an “order of simplicity”.

Also, we’ve been talking to a number of services in different fields regarding the possibility to link users’ accounts in different services using our API. First news coming soon, more to follow in August.

Happy midsummer – Hyvää juhannusta!

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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 N82, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8GB

Our earlier submission in the Ovi Store is a Web Runtime version supporting S60 3.2 and S60 5.0 devices.

Both the apps are in principle “wrappers”: icons in the homescreen, which open the mobile browser optimized version of HeiaHeia.

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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 5 sports of the year.

You can book a URL of your choice for your public profile (from Settings -> Privacy), with the format www.heiaheia.com/user/yournamehere. Please don’t use any offensive or dirty language here though!  Tip: you need to log out of the service to see your public profile. If you’re logged in, the URL takes you to your “internal” profile page.

If you’d like to share more (or less) things in the public page, just let us know! As always, any other comments, feedback & ideas also very much welcome.

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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 site, you can automatically push your activities also to HeiaHeia and have nice route thumbnails in your feed to complement your other sporty activities.

The first app supporting this is our friend eCoach, available for the Nokia N900. The feature will be supported in the next eCoach release, due in a couple of weeks.

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m.heiaheia.com now live!

By HeiaHeia team | Published: June 9, 2010

Our mobile site is now available for any mobile device on m.heiaheia.com!

The mobile version of HeiaHeia has been out for a while now, but so far only for select devices, for which we’ve automatically served the mobile optimized version. Now you can point any browser to m.heiaheia.com and start using this small screen friendly version.

Comments on how the site works on different devices very much welcome!

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HeiaHeia på Svenska!

By HeiaHeia team | Published: June 7, 2010

Hejsan alla!

Things don’t get much more Nordic than this: a start-up from Finland with a Norwegian name launches support for the Swedish language! Just click the flag icon on the top right corner & switch to Swedish in order to hurra på dina vänner! Huge thanks for our friend Daniel for helping us out with the localization.

As with any of our supported languages (so far English, Finnish, Russian, Swedish – Norwegian, Italian and German in the pipeline), please let us know, if you have a better wording for something, if you discover typos, or anything else you’d like to change.

If you have talent and interest for localizing stuff and would like to help us out with your mother tongue, please contact us! We can offer you e.g. a special status in our service  and some pretty cool cheering icons! ; )

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Photos & video!

By HeiaHeia team | Published: May 25, 2010

We’ve received a number of requests for attaching media like photos and video to your training log entries. We’ve now done this the following way: we recognize links to media on Flickr, Vimeo and YouTube in training log notes and put thumbnails in the feed and training log. Clicking on the thumbnails takes you to the original media.

As always, comments very much welcome!

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HeiaHeia in Ovi Store

By HeiaHeia team | Published: May 20, 2010

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 fold, Nokia E5-00, Nokia E75, Nokia 6730 classic, Nokia 6700 slide, Nokia 5630 XpressMusic, and Nokia 5320 XpressMusic. And maybe some others that we might have missed, basically these are all S60 3rd Ed FP2 and S60 5th Ed devices.

We have another version supporting a wider range of devices in the pipeline waiting for approval.

We also have an iPhone version in the screening process of the App Store, but it looks like the process might take a while. In the meantime, we suggest iPhone users to go to our site, click the + sign at the bottom of you browser and select “Add to Home Screen” – this adds an App icon linking to HeiaHeia to your device home screen.

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