Between August 31, 2010 and Sept. 14, 2010, we are holding a fundraising campaign to benefit the Diabetes Hands Foundation, the nonprofit behind TuDiabetes.org.
Aug. 18, 2010 Whole Foods Market launched the new Whole Foods Market Missions iPhone app. Read the app description below, taken from the iTunes Preview page (the bolded words are mine, to point out the coincidences between this app and another app we launched on Facebook two months ago):
Get on a mission to better health! The Whole Foods Market Missions (WFMissions) app will help you broaden your palate by introducing you to a range of delicious, nutrient dense foods. Learn more about healthy eating and start a conversation with your social networks about the road to good health.
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Missions — Complete steps of varying difficulty and earn badges through fun and healthy Missions.
Tips – Get simple, practical advice on cooking, nutrition, green living, food storage and more. Save your favorites for easy reference.
Profile – Keep track of your accomplishments and brag about them via email, Facebook, and Twitter
More than two months before, the Diabetes Hands Foundation launched HealthSeeker™, a new Facebook® game, with the goal of helping players make specific lifestyle changes that focus on healthy eating. While the benefits of the game are available to anyone, HealthSeeker™ specifically helps people with diabetes make more informed lifestyle decisions in an innovative way that complements their daily use of social media.
There are MISSIONS and ACTION STEPS to help players achieve LIFESTYLE GOALS and create an opportunity to advance in the game. These LIFESTYLE GOALS include eating more healthfully, achieving or maintaining a healthy weight, improving one’s diabetes control and lowering cardiovascular risk factors. As ACTION STEPS are completed and players return to report their progress, they receive experience points and other awards for their achievements.
HealthSeeker™ combines a supportive social networking environment with important information on managing diabetes. The game utilizes the player’s own Facebook® friends as sources of inspiration and support on the road to better health.
On HealthSeeker game, missions are made up of action steps as shown:
This is how a comparable screen looks on the Whole Foods App:
When you complete a mission on HealthSeeker, it appears as follows:
This is how it looks on the Whole Foods App:
This is how my achievements page looks on HealthSeeker:
This is how the badges tab looks on the Whole Foods app:
Has Whole Foods Market been patterned off HealthSeeker™? Is it a ripoff? I would like to hear your thoughts…
All I can say is: there seem to be a LOT of similarities. Considering how broad this space is and how much resources Whole Foods should be able to put behind developing a truly innovative and groundbreaking app, I would have imagined that they’d try to avoid repeating the same thing that others are already doing out there… but I digress. What do YOU guys think?
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Agreed!!!
“We must together as a nation STOP WATCHING FOX NEWS!”
ANTES:
AHORA:
No muchos cambios, eh? 
¡¡El 25 de Agosto, celebramos el tercer aniversario de la gran familia de EsTuDiabetes!!
Compartimos esta gran ocasion mientras vimos hacia atras, celebramos lo que hemos logrado y hablamos un poco sobre los planes para el futuro de la comunidad.
Si te perdiste el evento, aqui esta el video:
Esta es la presentación a la cual se hace referencia durante el video:
I honestly don’t know how I feel about it. I know I have been fairly paranoid about using FourSquare: I probably used it for a couple of weeks and then removed the app from my phone.
Do you see how Facebook Places is going to be any different? Would love to hear your thoughts.
I’ve known for some time the importance of breathing… I don’t mean, breathing to stay alive. I mean deep breathing mindfully. Yet, time and again, I find myself breathing in a shallow way and even occasionally holding my breath as I am stressing over something (an email, a situation, a phone call, etc.)
This morning, as I was following Tweets from the Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp, I read some live comments about the many wise things spoken by Chip Conley at the event. I then stumbled upon this particular tweet by Conley, that totally caught my attention:
So I proceeded to read the post Do You Know How to Breathe? How to Think Clearly and Feel Relaxed in Two Minutes. The author shared what he did (thanks to his wife) to remember BREATHING throughout the day:
… my wife gave me a framed print with the word breathe written in beautiful calligraphy. It sits on top of a bookshelf in my office, replacing the Post-it note reminder I used to have on my computer screen.
So I went about creating a desktop image to put ON my screen (which I am staring at most of the day), with the word BREATHE on it. I hope you find it useful to remind yourself the importance of REALLY breathing to help you stay focused and in the now. You can download the desktop image by clicking on the image below.
Three years old. Doesn’t get old… (at least I like to believe that!)
From Wikipedia:
Chaat (Hindi: चाट) is plate of savoury snacks, typically served at road-side tracks from stalls or carts in India and Pakistan.
So next time you see a sign saying “CHAAT” don’t assume it’s an internet cafe, please! (even if you read “Internet Access” in the same line…)
El 1 de Agosto de 1928 nació mi papá. Aquí salimos en una foto que nos tomamos a fines de 1999 juntos. ¡Te queremos y te extrañamos, viejo!
