Hey, STL users.
The 21st of June is the solstice, which means the beginning of Summer for us here in the Northern hemisphere. (For our Aussie friends and others south of the equator, it's the beginning of Winter.) I thought it would be a good time to do a week-long Twitter-based STL walking challenge. Use STL to track and tweet your steps for a week, and I'll tally them up. The person with the most steps for the seven day period wins.
Here are the rules:
- Have a public Twitter timeline
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on June 14, 2009 at 1:49pm —
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After a week of going round and round with Apple tech support, StepTrakLite is back in the App Store. No explanation of what was wrong, just a brief note saying they fixed it.
Hah! I'm thrilled. This was extended and incredibly frustrating, but at least its fixed.
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on May 15, 2009 at 7:39pm —
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Well, it's been over a week now. I've been going around and around with Apple support folks on a daily basis, and STL is still not back in the App Store. This has nothing to do with censorship, iPhone OS 3.0, or anything else that would make good sense. The itunesconnect portal says I need to execute an agreement, but the apple developer portal says I already have and won't give me the opportunity to do it again. And nobody seems to know what to do about this.
Needles to say this is incredibly…
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on May 15, 2009 at 3:25pm —
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Hey, STL users.
Just to let you know -- we found out today that Apple has yanked STL due to some kind of bureaucratic screwup relating to the customer agreement. (They say we need to accept the latest version, but when I try to it tells me we already have.) This came to my attention this morning and I'm still working on getting it sorted out. More soon, hopefully.
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on May 5, 2009 at 2:36pm —
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There are currently 201 members of our StepTrakLite community. Here are a few stats:
- The average stated member age is 37.9 years old. The youngest is 14, and the oldest is 68.
- 90 of our members say they are women, 92 say they are men and the remainder... well, they didn't say
- The first member (me) joined on October 22, 2008. The two most recent members joined today.
- Of those of you who told us what social networks you use, here are the numbers:
- Faceboo
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on April 20, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Hey, folks. I just got a direct twitter message asking me if this group was still active, and it reminded me that I've been focused on other projects lately and hadn't checked in.
StepTrakLite is very much alive and well -- right now it is being launched between 5,000 and 6,000 times a day, and the trend is increasing. We recently got positive press in USA Today and the San Jose Mercury News. Our promotion with MapMyWalk and the American Heart Association did very well, exceeding everyone's exp…
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on April 17, 2009 at 3:21pm —
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Hey, STL users.
With the release of 1.2.1 I wanted to invite our new and current users to introduce themselves. I'm Rich, a founder of the company that makes StepTrakLite. We've got about 4,000 people a day using STL on the iPhone and about 180 members of this forum. It's been awfully quite around here lately and I'd like to hear what's on your mind. So - post a blog and tell us what you think about STL and what you are using it for, what features you'd like to see, etc.
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on March 25, 2009 at 3:34pm —
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StepTrakLite version 1.2.1 is now available in the AppStore. This version includes an integrated help feature, and we're updating the documentation to better format on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
We've also got a new advertising partner who will be serving more relevant ads. Advertising is our sole source of income for STL so we hope all of you will upgrade soon and make our new advertising partner happy.
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on March 23, 2009 at 5:56pm —
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Those of us living in the colder, snowier parts of the world face some special challenges getting our winter walking in. Cold, snow, and ice make walking outdoors more difficult, but there are ways to stay comfortable and safe while exercising out of doors under winter conditions.
Cold may be the easiest to deal with -- cold you can dress for. When you walk at a moderate pace, you are generating about 2.5 times as much heat as you do when you are at rest, so you may need less insulation than yo…
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on February 4, 2009 at 4:23pm —
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Here is the final leader board rankings:
- 15,940 steps, jas43056. Winner!
- 15,626, steps, rdevaul, 2nd place (this is me)
- 12,546, steps, kamisha100, 3rd place
- 11,231 steps, Jo -mangee- Booth, 4th place
Congratulations to our winner, jas43056. Averaging over 2,000 reported steps a day,…
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on January 9, 2009 at 5:54pm —
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Hey, STL users.
I've got a challenge for you. Let's see who can post the most total steps to Twitter during the first seven days of the new year. Just to be clear, I'm going to be playing too, so lets see if anyone can beat me. I'll be posting to
rdevaul.
Here are the rules. In order for you steps to count:
- Steps have to be posted from STL using the "Steps Since" message formatting. ("Steps in the last" makes it harder to determine whether step
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on December 31, 2008 at 3:09pm —
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Happy Holidays, STL users.
The weather in Boston is no fun right now -- we've had major snow and cold temperatures, warming up today to create a slushy mess for Christmas eve. Tomorrow I'll be flying to Utah to see my family.
The release candidate of STL 1.2 is in final testing. This release will allow you to post your steps directly to MapMyWalk.com, which will let you track your activity, convert steps to distance, and share your fitness activities with other users of one of the most popular…
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on December 24, 2008 at 1:19pm —
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Hey, STL users!.
There was some badness with the site yesterday. As far as I know this was a Ning-wide server issue that has now been resolved, but if you notice any lingering problems with the StepTrakLite community please let me know.
Cheers,
Rich
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on December 11, 2008 at 2:20pm —
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I'm in LA for business today. We just closed a substantial sale of our
FitAWare corporate fitness incentives product with a company who's brand everyone knows. (Watch for the press release soon). I'm staying in Glendale tonight, and will be heading off to the Bay Area tomorrow. Yes, I'll be visiting Cupertino. No, I can't say anything about why I might be visiting Cupertino. :)
I don't suppose anyone has suggestions for fun things to do in Glend…
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on November 10, 2008 at 7:40pm —
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I've updated the previous calculator to add pace, METs, and Calories, and to fix some interaction/rendering problems that were present under IE. The Calories calculation is based on standard METs table values and should be reasonably accurate for most walking and running paces. NOTE: you don't have to enter weight or duration if you just want to use it as a distance calculator.
If you can run faster than 11mph (17.7kph, or a 5 minute 27 seconds mile pace ) the METs numbers shown are the results…
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on November 3, 2008 at 5:27pm —
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Hey, STL users.
Are you a native speaker of a language other than English? Want to help us get the next release out?
We'd love your help in internationalizing STL. Whether you speak German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Persian, Farsi, Japanese, etc., we need your expertise. Here is how you can help:
We need translations of the following labels and phrases for as many languages as we can manage. If you have the time and expertise, please post a follow-up with your translations of the following:…
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on October 28, 2008 at 2:03am —
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I wrote a web gadget steps to distance calculator yesterday. It's being reviewed by Ning and should be available on the site shortly, but for those who don't want to wait you can access it on the main AWareTechs site:
http://awaretechs.com/StepTrakLiteCALC.html
This will work with any pedometer, obviously, so tell all your walking friends, not just STL users. :)
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on October 27, 2008 at 1:54pm —
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Apple just approved the first major update to STL, version 1.1
This update adds Twitter support, allowing you to "Tweet" your steps (with annotation) to your Twitter timeline. For example:
2584 steps since Oct 20 at 11:17AM. Going to work by way of Davis Square 12:19 PM Oct 20th from StepTrakLite
Why is this cool?
Tweeting your steps lets you record your activity and share it with your friends at the same tim…
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on October 26, 2008 at 3:00am —
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OK, so it turned out to be a Level Eight issue. Somehow, the availability date of the current version of STL got pushed into the future (Halloween, to be precise) when the update was submitted to the AppStore. No clue how that happened, but it is fixed now.
In addition, STL should now be available for all platforms and markets. So, you Canadian, UK, and other international users who've been waiting, now is your chance.
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on October 24, 2008 at 2:49pm —
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We submitted our first major update to StepTrakLite last night. At about the same time STL became unavailable in the US AppStore. We are checking in to this and expect STL to be available again shortly. More information here as it becomes available.
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Added by Richard W. DeVaul Ph.D. on October 24, 2008 at 10:15am —
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