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Life Fitness' Open API Changes Future of Mobile Fitness Apps, Personalized Workouts
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Excerpt: Climb 100 floors on the stairclimber and earn a free smoothie? According to Life Fitness, the global leader in commercial fitness equipment manufacturing, these scenarios represent the new wave in fitness technology. Life Fitness introduces LFopen, the fitness industry's first and only open API (Application Programming Interface), that is changing the way exercisers interact with fitness equipment and, as a result, the future of fitness facilities. As the first equipment-maker to open its product platform to all developers last October, Life Fitness boasts the only true open API in the fitness industry.... read the full post.
Tags: Alerts, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Applications, Fitness, Google, Googlereader, Health, Healthcare, Ifttt, Interface, Programming, Sports
Fitness And Health Tracker Fitbit Is Raising $30M At A $300M-Plus Valuation
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Excerpt: Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. → Learn More Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the media industry.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Fitness, Health, Investment, sport
Life Fitness' Open API Changes Future of Mobile Fitness Apps, Personalized Workouts
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Excerpt: SCHILLER PARK, IL--(Marketwire - Mar 5, 2013) - Climb 100 floors on the stairclimber and earn a free smoothie? According to Life Fitness, the global leader in commercial fitness equipment manufacturing, these scenarios represent the new wave in fitness technology. Life Fitness introduces LFopen, the fitness industry's first and only open API (Application Programming Interface), that is changing the way exercisers interact with fitness equipment and, as a result, the future of fitness facilities. As the first equipment-maker to open its product platform to all developers last October, Life Fitness boasts the only true open API in the fitness industry.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Fitness, Health, Sports
Mashup Idea using Fleetly API
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Excerpt: Fleetly recently announced the release of their Fleetly API to allow access to a rich range fitness content and information, including exercises, workouts, images and videos. It uses an OAuth 2. 0 login interface and access to the API is via calls to www. fleetly. com/api. This API might be used in conjuction with the ACTIVE APIs to create a unique mashup application that combines workouts and real events available for registration. Have you come across any interesting APIs that might make for a cool, new mashup? Let us know in the comments below. About Fleetly: Fleetly is a fitness website that hopes to to increase user participation and achievement by making the activities social and competitive.... read the full post.
Tags: Activity, API-Evangelist, Content, Fitness, Outdoors
New Android Beta Build v2.12.0.4
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Excerpt: We’ve addressed all of the issues reported in the previous beta build and believe this is a release candidate. Take it for a test drive and let us know how it goes. Changes include: : -Set fitness goals on the app and track your progress -Ability to view progress against goals you’ve created on Runkeeper. com -Enter your weight within the app -Numerous bug fixes If you do find a bug please provide us as much information as you can (via the comments section below) about the steps you take to reproduce it. If you are a developer, feel free to use developer tools to generate bug reports and send them over to us at support@runkeeper. com Now for the fun part!... read the full post.
Tags: Android, Device, Devices, Excercise, Fitness, Healthcare, Runkeeper

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