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Last March I reviewed the initial release of Gyroscope. You provide access to services like Fitbit, Runkeeper, Instagram, and Foursquare and it aggregates and creates beautiful visualizations from your personal data. You can read my initial review here. Over the…
Recently I’ve seen the addition of both Spotify and Netflix showing me friends activity on their sites. Spotify does this by showing friends who listen to a band on their artist pages and Netflix lists people on show pages as…
Before I get into writing my thoughts on the topic at hand I wanted to explain that I have been using the term “Digital Preservation” to describe the topic that I began covering in earnest last year. There are many…
It’s been several years since the last time I changed the design of this site and it was due for a face-lift. I’ve been watching so many new site designs rolling out over the last year or so and have…
I have continued to monitor and test many new apps and services as well as following news as it relates to lifelogging, quantified self, and digital preservation. Unfortunately I’ve been very busy with my day job at XPRIZE and many…
Over the years I’ve struggled with how I could provide links to news, tips, and other information that I come across related to what I cover on this blog. In some cases I merely want to share, but in others…
Last year was a good one when it came to the growth of health gadgets and services. A digital health year end funding report that was done by Rocket Health showed how fast the sector is moving. Venture Beat broke down…
2012 was a year where I began covering some broader areas. While I continue to follow services that do social aggregation as well as services that leverage social data, I continue to focus quite a bit more on personal data…
Last week through an Engadget post I learned of a Microsoft patent filing for ‘life streaming’. The filing describes ‘life streaming as: A system and method for analyzing, summarizing, and transmitting life experiences captured using a life recorder is described.…
When I first heard about App.net a few weeks back I was intrigued. On the surface it sounded all too similar to the ill fated Diaspora initiative aiming to create an open alternative to Facebook. I didn’t feel that the…