Fitbod App – Artificial Intelligence for Fitness

Parkrun Chrissy Field

Reading Time: 4 minutes Can Artificial Intelligence get your body fit?  I have been weight training for the last year and have made some modest gains.  For all the time and energy I’m putting in though, I’m fairly certain I’m wasting a lot of effort.  I can tell if I’m working hard or not, but I question whether I … Read more

What cool looks like

Reading Time: < 1 minute I stumbled on this website for a innovative marketing agency done by For Office Use Only.  Had to share. https://framenoir.com/

Weav

Reading Time: 4 minutes Weav was featured on the Apple app store, so I downloaded it.  Weav promised to solve the biggest problem with running to music. It plays music that automatically adjusts the beats per minute to match your stride. Stride cadence is getting a lot of attention in running circles as being not only a crucial element … Read more

10 Tips for working from home.

Home Office

Reading Time: 4 minutes https://www.flickr.com/photos/harawish/ Set a schedule – Setting a schedule is vital to be effective in a home office. When working from home, all your distractions are right at hand. You are in the exact same environment that you are in during the weekend when you have time to relax, so it’s easy to fall into the … Read more

Unison Kills It At Finovate 2017 San Jose

Reading Time: < 1 minute Flawless presentation of their fundamental financial technology innovation. Practice makes perfect. Are home ownership investments fintech? What is technology? To medieval merchants, the invention of gold certificates was financial technology. Today, people first think of user interfaces and data systems when they think of fintech.  Fundamental paradigms shifts like Unison’s are hard to recognize as being technological … Read more

Finovate San Jose: Cool Fintech

Reading Time: 2 minutes Quantiacs: Provides a toolset for traders to create and back test algorithmic trading strategies based on market signals. Traders can create algorithms, back test them on historical data from the last 27 years, and then incubate the algorithm for 6 months to see if it works. The company then connects successful algorithms with investors. The … Read more

Panaderia Branding – La Victoria

Reading Time: < 1 minute La Victoria Bakery, a 60-year-old Mexican bakery on 24th Street was a pillar of the community, one of the first Mexican businesses bustling Irish-Italian neighborhood. But just as the Latino family community lent its culture to the old neighborhood, the area was changing again with influx of new tech workers who were looking for something … Read more

Mobile Health Cynic

Reading Time: 4 minutes   Lily Tomlin said, “No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up.”   The more I dig into this mobile wellness space, the more that comment resonates with me. I am pretty excited about mobile fitness trackers.  I get excited about the challenges of acquiring users and monetizing them in this space.  … Read more

Withings – Bad Name for a Scale

Reading Time: < 1 minute Fitbit’s new Aria isn’t the first wireless scale. A French company called Withings has had a wireless scale on the market since at least 2009.  I believe Withings is going to fail.  The products look cool in an international space-age plastic frog design kind-of-way, but the name is poison.  I don’t know what it sounds … Read more