Comments on: Yammer wins over FitBit and others? Seriously?

By: FJ | Fitmarker

FJ | Fitmarker — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:24:25 +0000

@Joe, I’ve personally tried bodytrace and it’s pretty legit… thought I did have one break on me. However, the customer response team was on that pretty quick. Much better option over withings scale but that one DOES have wifi.

As for FitBit… it’s one of the most interesting tools I’ve been looking forward to try. Good to see you mentioned it. P.S- yammer is so useless.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:32:01 +0000

Yeah, there are plenty. The last one is http://www.bodytrace.com with their internet-capable bathroom scale…. Now that is weightwatchers 2.0!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:27:52 +0000

Actually, the list of sites that offer uploadable pedometer type products with social networking is actually a lot larger than people think. WalkingSpree, Fitbug, Virgin HealthMiles, SportBrain, Nike+, BodyBugg, WalkStyles and more.

By: Skiold

Skiold — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:46:10 +0000

So, we have a bunch of high tech pedometer-like gadgets (bodybugg.com, fitbit.com, fitbug.net, nike+, or name your gps…), everyone of them with its closed site tracking exercises and calorie expenditure. Plus lots of third party pages and social networks offering the same kind of tracking.

I’m with #5 Linas, a great moment to start sharing and exposing workout data.

By: Linas

Linas — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:53:42 +0000

There are several fitness social networks out there already that let you make groups and follow your friends / family (e.g. FitLink). But you are right, they could do with better device integration to take some of the work out of tracking. FitBit should partner with these and expose their data.

By: Svetlana Gladkova

Svetlana Gladkova — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:12:34 +0000

Dion, same thought here on both products, can’t agree more. What’s more, announcing that Yammer has a business model simply because they know what to charge users for when there will probably be no one willing to pay at all – how reasonable is that? I just fail to comprehend the whole idea.

And even if we ignore the social implications for FitBit (by the way, I heard there is already a similar product called FitBug but without bluetooth – so it is also not 100% new but at least not widely popular already), it will never hurt to have a product to actually remind us that we need do something in addition to sitting in front our computers the whole day.

By: dion

dion — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:36:07 +0000

Stu,

The point isn’t for people to push out “I lost 10 pounds” to random people on Facebook. The point is that I could start a group, we could all sign up, and we could all share information on what we are doing. The device can give real data, which although far from perfect, is better than the lies we make up to please ourselves :)

Bodybug does this for personal trainers, so they can watch what they customers are doing, and this takes it to the next level. But yes, this is an opt-in thing :)

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:31:15 +0000

Seems kind of embarrassing for some twitter-knockoff to have won, but I can’t say that I’m really feeling your choice, either, Dion. I don’t want to be alerted throughout my day about how many pounds some SLOB managed to knock off or put on during his coffee break. :S

By: funtomas

funtomas — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:23:12 +0000

OMG, Americans must have got crazy. Maybe viral, but definitely not global like, say, well Twitter.