New features (finally :-) )

After taking a little break, we’re back with some new features and bug fixes:

Weight logging via Twitter

You can log your weight by tweeting something like this: #weight 175 lbs @ugomo

More here: http://ugomo.com/twitter

Autoposting your workouts to Twitter

We now support autoposting your workouts to your Twitter account. If you link your Twitter account with your Ugomo account and opt to tweet your workouts, we will tweet a message like this whenever you log a workout: Biked 35 min 10 sec, 15.3 km Nice ride http://ugomo.com/workout/…

More here: http://ugomo.com/twitter#autopost

Feedback forum

Have ideas about how we can make Ugomo better? Check out our feedback forum: http://ugomo.uservoice.com

Update to login page

We just updated the login page. The previous login page had three options; Ugomo login, Twitter login and other 3rd parties (Google, Facebook etc).

The new login page has merged the Twitter login with the other 3rd parties, so there are now 2 options; Ugomo login or 3rd party login (Twitter, Google, Facebook etc).

There are 2 reasons for the change:

• Simpler login page
• Twitter login is now handled via OAuth

The reason for using OAuth for login is improved security (since you don’t have to enter your Twitter password into Ugomo).

If you notice any issues with the new login, please let us know via our contact us page.

New activities

We just added a few more activity options (in addition to the previously available - bike, run, swim, walk and other):

- Aerobics

- Yoga

- Elliptical

- Row

- XC Ski

For logging through twitter, use #aerobics, #yoga, #elliptical, #row or #xcski for the new activities. See http://ugomo.com/twitter for all details.

We’re planning on adding strength/weights logging soon too, so stay tuned for that.

Format for logging workouts on Twitter changed

We’ve made a small change in the format for logging workouts on twitter. The new format looks like this:

#run 6.2 mi 45 min 165 bpm Nice tempo run @ugomo

The change is that the sport tag should come first in the tweet, instead of @ugomo.

The reason for the change is to better separate tweets that are supposed to log a workout from those that are replies to, or mentions of, the @ugomo twitter user.

The old format will continue to work for a while, but start using the new format anyway since the old format will stop working sometime in the future.

For a complete description of how to log workouts from twitter, check out http://ugomo.com/twitter

New feature: workout widget

Over the weekend we added a new feature: workout widgets. You can now embed your workout in your blog or web page. Just go to the workout page (for example http://ugomo.com/workout/597), click the “Widget” link, and copy the code that’s show. Finally add this code to your web page.

We also added a “Share” option which makes it super easy to share your workout on a number of sites, like Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.

Soft-launch

We’re live! About 2 weeks ago we started accepting registrations. It’s a soft launch in the sense that we’re not doing any real marketing, that will have to wait until we’ve gotten some feedback from our users about what needs improvements or fixing.

Quick update

I’ve added a few new features and fixes which will go live in a week or 2 hopefully, the main one being able ot login/register using a third party account like Google, Yahoo, Facebook etc.

Recent news: Slowtwitch.com launches training log based on Ugomo

A quick update; the popular triathlon news/forum site Slowtwitch has licenced and launched a version of the Ugomo training log. You can find it here: http://training.slowtwitch.com

At the time of writing this, around 48000 workouts and 1100 swim/bike and run routes have been logged by the slowtwitch users.

Read more about the launch here http://www.slowtwitch.com/Training/Slowtwitch.com_s_training_log_goes_live_625.html