More running, this time with satellites

Another long run last weekend. 16 miles in 2 hours 49 mins.

Only this time I tracked it with Nokia's Sportstracker application that uses the built in GPS on the N95 to measure distance, speed, time, etc.

This is all good. Sportstracker is a free mobile app and an online service which logs your runs, and allows you to look up other peoples routes. Much like Nike+ or Mapmyrun.com (I've been using the latter).

However whilst the phone allows me to export to GPX and KML, the website does not provide the tools to embed the resulting map into my blog, so I have to link to it instead.

Whilst this is a bit lame, it is probably my only complaint about the service. The only other thing missing from the website is a volume of users, the community areas of the site seem a bit empty - probably because no one thinks about Nokia when they think of personal fitness.

The Zune, Widgetised

According to the New York Times, Microsoft

"is creating a social-networking site, Zune Social, to encourage the sharing of samples of songs online, even for fans who do not own a Zune player. Members of the network will also be able to use a small application on their computers to display which songs they have been listening to, and that information can be posted on certain Web sites outside the network or sent by e-mail to friends."

A bit like any number of existing web-based music applications, then.

15 days of fame, and counting...

Justin wears the camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He says this is for the rest of his life. This is Justin.tv. Meanwhile in the Guardian, Oliver Burkeman provides an overview of other exercises in boredem and banality, including cheddarvision.tv.

Big media rushing to cash in on MMOs

Over in San Francisco, the BBC reports on how millions are being wasted invested into Massively Multiplayer Online Games:

"Five years from now a social networking site without a 3D universe will look like a dinosaur."

Another Gaming CEO:

"You are about to see, and this is happening already in Asia, many different kinds of games that are massively multiplayer and less based on role-playing games... This medium is going to destroy TV - and it's going to happen in short term."

How many times have we heard 'this will destroy TV' before. I'm not holding my breath....

Inaugural Post

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