APIs | Story of Digital Health
Note: We’re transiting this blog (more on that soon) but we think this is important and useful enough to share here. Digital Health APIs are a powerful mechanism for integrating data across digital...
View ArticleLearning from the games we play: A primer
When we ask about whether in-game behaviors are brought from the game into real life, we’re asking about a phenomenon called “transfer.” Transfer is, quite literally, the act of learning skills or...
View ArticleWatch this: 5 Runners – A @BostonGlobe Documentary
The Boston Globe’s Geoff Edgers and Darren Durlach profile five runners who were nearing the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon when the first bomb went off, and follow up with them on their trips...
View Article#BostonForever
Today, on the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, I’m thinking of the victims – the three who died, the 260 injured. I’m thinking of a great race, one of the best in the world, sullied by the...
View ArticleDigital Activity Tracking Statistics
We’ve read dozens of statistics in our quest to understand the rapidly-developing market for fitness tracking apps and devices. For a number of reasons, these stats often contradict each other. First,...
View ArticleThoughts on Developing for Apple’s Health App
Update: Good news! Indie devs have full access to HealthKit. Apple even provided sample code that “teaches you everything from writing data into HealthKit to reading data from HealthKit.” Developer...
View Article5 Ways Apple’s New HealthKit Framework Can Fix Activity Tracking
“When your health and fitness apps work together, they become more powerful.” That’s one of the values behind Health, Apple’s new app that unifies data from various fitness and wellness apps and...
View ArticleActivity Tracking is Broken
Note: After I posted this article, Rock Health published “The Future of Biosensing Wearables” report showing that the activity tracker market is the only wearables space to have traction, with a 1% —...
View ArticleUpcoming: PAX Prime
In a few days, I’ll be heading to the Penny Arcade Expo (PAX Prime) in Seattle. PAX Prime is the largest gaming event in North America. It “gives equal attention to console gamers, computer gamers, and...
View ArticleFour ways Apple Watch and Apple’s fitness apps are rocket fuel for health and...
Note: this post was originally posted on Medium. Many third-party fitness apps have overlapping or even identical functionality as Apple’s new default fitness apps. Since Apple is one of the most...
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