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I've been tracking everything about myself

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I can't believe you bothered to take the time to write that. Who cares what his running pace is, and more to the point why do you? I think the point of the submission was to highlight the quality of the site. Not some strangers fitness level.

In all his clumsiness, chatmasta is exposing the core topic of the website: What happens when one publishes his private data to the world? Criticism, mockery, or respect if you're lucky to have the right crowd. I'm looking forward to seeing someone stalked using data he published voluntarily, just for the social experiment. Will it be good? bad?

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Nicholas Felton has been doing something similar for a couple of years, but he creates a printed journal: http://feltron.com/ar12_02.html I would be interested in a turnkey solution with modular components that would allow people to quickly "snap" together a site like this.

Check out Felton's other site - daytum.com. It's an app and website that helps people get started, though the fancy visualizations aren't modularized just yet.

And http://www.reporter-app.com, an iOS app, also by Felton.

BTW, anyone knows why it is Nicholas Felton and feltron.com? (with and without "r")?

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I can't believe you bothered to take the time to write that. Who cares what his running pace is, and more to the point why do you? I think the point of the submission was to highlight the quality of the site. Not some strangers fitness level.

In all his clumsiness, chatmasta is exposing the core topic of the website: What happens when one publishes his private data to the world? Criticism, mockery, or respect if you're lucky to have the right crowd. I'm looking forward to seeing someone stalked using data he published voluntarily, just for the social experiment. Will it be good? bad?

Some guy already tried this. He looked up instagram users in his vicinity, looked up their most recent photos, then found them and freaked them out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P_0s1TYpJU

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I think the site is absolutely beautiful. What I am wondering, though is: how are the vitamin/mineral stats on http://aprilzero.com/sport/ generated? Is there a way to self-measure these stats without blood tests?

Possibly tools like My Fitness Pal. They track this sort of thing. Here's an example: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/food/calories/fresh-satsuma-oran...

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Reminds me of a guy who was on Bloomberg West last year. He does it to become more productive, and find out what makes him less.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/using-sensors-to-track-your-e...

PS. The website is well done, but in all fairness, similar websites were made in Flash more than 10 years ago.

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Nice PR campaign to prepare the floor for a new generation of wearables / tracking & monitoring devices .. don't get me wrong, I like(LOVE) the technology, I just don't like the idea of becoming a self-sponsored spy pawn on me and everyone around .. focus on privacy, local/self hosted services first, hardened leak-free hw, cloud data encryption(with keys not leaving your devices) by default + 1000 of other privacy-re…

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