paul marcum: "turn on, weigh in, tweet out: twitter as your body sensor api"
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What Google's Marissa Mayer calls "The sensor revolution" is upon us and multiple fitness sensors are on the market. Loic le Meur just called for a "body API" to handle the data these generate. In his talk Paul argues that it already exists and is called Twitter. Tweeters are already sharing #fitstats, weigh-ins, and #nikeplus and Garmin #runs by the thousands each day. It's in Twitter's best interest to encourage this behavior as data is a growing business and in the tweeters' best interest too as illustrated by a recent Kaiser Permanente study but the system needs to be optimized.@jpmarcum, marcum.comTRANSCRIPT
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Paul MARCUMTurn On, Weight In, Tweet Out: Twitter as Your Body Sensor API
@jpmarcum
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Twitter as the Body Sensor API
@jpmarcum
Turn onWeigh In
Tweet Out
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“The Sensor Revolution”
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Going Mainstream? You Bet.
3RD BEST SELLING CONSOLE GAME OF ALL TIME!!!
OVER 3 MILLION REGISTERED RUNNERS!
OVER 2 MILLION DOWNLOADS!
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Where does all the sensor data go?
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But in many cases it’s stranded there...
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…unless you can write a Unix parser.
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Shouldn’t this be the most portable data of all?
After all, it’s *our* bodies’ data.
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Time for a Body API. Why not Twitter?
It’s OpenPublic, Private, AnonymousIt ExistsAnd…
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…Tweeters are already using it as a Body API
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Why? Support & Accountability Works
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This goes beyond the anecdotal…
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But There Could Be More. OPEN DATA “GAMES”
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And Even MoreSelf Trackers
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FatDrop.pr = Open Data + Self Tracking
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Why Should Twitter Encourage it?
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How to Encourage it? Avoid this:
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And this:
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Twitter Filtering is Critical
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But, More Than Anything, Sensor Manufacturers Need to Open Up
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Thank You!
@jpmarcum