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iPhone running app accuracy – is GPS enough?

May 18, 2010
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I’m not always looking for speed accuracy.
I fondly remember dodging speeding tickets in my post-college Jeep CJ-7. The speedometer read low (honest, officer!) because of the oversized tires. But true mileage is far more important when I run.
Accuracy counts in a running app. Nobody likes missing out on their hard-fought mileage. Worse is grinning [...]

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Why run with headphones?

May 8, 2010
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I’ll confess. Running bored the hey out of me. The iPod turned my runs upside down – I suddenly rocked along to my own theme music. I ran longer. Even better, I ran regularly.
I’m not the only one. Brunel University compared students running with music vs. students running in silence. Music increased endurance 15 percent.
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Roadbud arrives!

April 23, 2010
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We might have luxuriated in the perfect spring weather outside. Instead, we’ve been plinking away on the keyboard. Our time sweating over a hot compiler paid off.   Roadbud is here to make your run rock!
What’s Roadbud anyway? It’s an iPhone app for runners that measures pace and distance. Roadbud’s built with useful functionality like [...]

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Seven lessons on Twitter crowdsourcing

March 2, 2010
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I created my first twitter contest three weeks ago. As a novice twitterer, I learned a hell of a lot along the way.
Here’s the contest: we need a tagline to describe Roadbud in just a few words. In return: one top-of-the-line iPhone.
The game is simple to describe, but difficult to win. I understand every facet of [...]

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Roadbud version 1.0 launch slip

February 28, 2010
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Roadbud was originally slated to ship by March 1. It isn’t ready – we’re still spraying for aphids.
I don’t like slipping the schedule, but we need to stand behind good software. Roadbud will ship around March 15 instead.
We’re excited about what this iPhone running app will do. A good number of other runners have been [...]

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Crowdsourcing our tagline

February 9, 2010
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We had a great experience with crowdsourcing our logo a few days ago. Some people call this “the wisdom of crowds” – the idea that a crowd of people can come up with great concepts. It should be fun, even on the off-chance it doesn’t pan out.
Crowdsourcing relies on a mass of strangers to be [...]

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