BlogBloghttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2012-01-03T00:15:14ZSquarespaceYour Life, Uploaded: 2011 Report Cardhttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2012/1/2/your-life-uploaded-2011-report-card.htmlJim Gemmell2012-01-02T20:09:56Z2012-01-02T20:09:56ZThe central prediction of our book Your Life Uploaded is that by 2020 you will be able to cheaply and easily record your entire life digitally. We called for businesses to form to service the growing demand for life-logging. The new year is a good time to evaluate how our prediction is shaping up – consider it our report card for 2011.

Just two years into our ten year prediction, business formation has been nothing short of amazing. Life-logging businesses at the end of 2011 include:

  • Backupify makes a backup of your online life at facebook, twitter, wordpress, photobucket, etc
  • bodybugg fitness tracking
  • CallTrunk record calls from any phone
  • Creative Memories – digital center takes scrap-booking into the digital age
  • DeepVue automatically summarizes experiences via GPS and photos
  • Digital plaster checks vital signs such as temperature, blood pressure and glucose levels
  • DynamicBooks electronic textbooks are interactive and customizable – a clear step on the path to the student memex we propose in the book
  • Earth Class Mail will receive and digitize your snail-mail
  • egoArchive “your memory in the cloud”
  • Erly.com helps you make stories out of your lifelog
  • Evernote digital note-taking with the goal: “remember everything”
  • Evidence.com is an evidence warehouse for police, including GPS-tagged video.
  • Facebook TimeLine is “the story of your life," according to Zuckerberg
  • Famento does online family histories
  • Fitbit tracks activity and sleep, and their new Ultra also tracks stair climbing
  • Google Health lets you store your health data online
  • iPod Nano with accelerometer
  • Jawbone’s UP wristband tracks when you are sleeping, eating, or exercising
  • Kindle’s Daily Review helps you review and remember passages from your books.
  • Looxcie makes a POV video camera built in to a bluetooth headset.
  • LifeBio.com captures life stories
  • Mailfreezr.com holds email for later delivery – up to 100 years later
  • Memolane is a social network for memories
  • Minerva Health Manager stores your health records on your PC, and also on a USB stick to share with a hospital, new doctor, etc.
  • Microsoft HealthVault also lets you store your health data online. A number of devices can upload data to your account.
  • Newline offers super-private backup and restore – taking us towards the “Swiss Data Bank” we proposed
  • MemoryMiner is a digital storytelling application that specializes in photos
  • OurStory captures stories and saves them permanently
  • ReadiBand is a wristwatch-like device which tracks wrist movements to estimate how you are sleeping
  • Reqall is a digital memory aid, helping you remember what matters “here and now”
  • Rseven copies everything from your cell phone
  • SocialSafe backs up Facebook, Twitter, Google+ & Viadeo profiles to create a private & searchable digital journal
  • Vicon Revue 3MP is a commercial version of the Microsoft Research SenseCam
  • Vievu has a chest-worn "video camera for cops."
  • WIN Human Recorder chest-worn wireless device measures ECG, temperature and movement
  • WisdomArk “users collaborate to create, share, and preserve life stories using photos and videos”
  • Withings makes scale that will wirelessly record your weight onto your account at their website
  • YouPivot search using context – very reminiscent of the MyLifeBits research prototypes.
  • Zeo’s wearable device does sleep tracking

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]]>Jawbone to release fitness wristband: "UP"http://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2011/10/10/jawbone-to-release-fitness-wristband-up.htmlJim Gemmell2011-10-10T23:03:58Z2011-10-10T23:03:58ZJawbone is coming out with the UP wristband that tracks when you are sleeping, eating, or exercising. Announced at TED, there are not many details released yet.

Coverage: CNET Wired

Update (11/6/2011): more details now available on the Jawbone site. Check out also this video about UP

Like fitbit it does step-counting, calorie burn estimation, and sleep-tracking. It also adds an iPhone app for a photo-journal of meals.

]]>Fitbit now tracks stair-climbinghttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2011/10/9/fitbit-now-tracks-stair-climbing.htmlJim Gemmell2011-10-09T16:17:36Z2011-10-09T16:17:36ZFitbit has released their new Ultra device, which tracks stair or hill-climbing. It also includes a clock/stopwatch.

]]>Facebook gets into lifelogging with their timeline featurehttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2011/9/28/facebook-gets-into-lifelogging-with-their-timeline-feature.htmlJim Gemmell2011-09-28T18:19:22Z2011-09-28T18:19:22ZCNN coverage:

With 'real-time' apps, Facebook is always watching

(CNN) -- A couple years ago, a Microsoft researcher named Gordon Bell embarked on a personal experiment: He would wear a video camera around his neck all the time and keep this "life recorder" always turned on, so it would record everything he did.

It was like an external memory drive for his brain, he wrote in a book called "Total Recall."

Sounds pretty sci-fi, right? Not so much. The "real-time sharing" updates Facebook announced Thursday aim to do something quite similar -- only for the Internet instead of in real life.

 With 'Timeline' feature, Facebook goes eternal (or at least tries to)

"Timeline is the story of your life," Zuckerberg said.

]]>Managing Health Information In Your Life - UW projecthttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2011/9/20/managing-health-information-in-your-life-uw-project.htmlJim Gemmell2011-09-21T05:02:20Z2011-09-21T05:02:20ZThe University of Washinton's Managing Health Information In Your Life project has the goal of "Supporting the information management needs of breast cancer patients"

We are designing an information system to help people with breast cancer manager their health information. When making treatment decisions and undergoing treatment, patients are often overwhelmed by the accumulation of unfamiliar information that they need to keep and use. We want to make it easier for people to organize and maintain all of their information within the context of managing the rest of their lives and schedules.

Our best wishes to the team members! Here is some coverage of the project on CNN.

]]>Introducing ERLY.com: Organizing your life(logging) experienceshttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2011/9/16/introducing-erlycom-organizing-your-lifelogging-experiences.htmlGordon Bell2011-09-16T22:47:58Z2011-09-16T22:47:58ZJust got a note from Eric Feng, the founder of Erly.com announcing their first product based on organizating Collections of one's lifelogs e.g. photos, videos, notes nto wonderful productions. Eric was an entrepeneur in residence at Kliener Perkins Caufield and Byers, and KPCB is an investor.

Check out their blog (http://blog.erly.com) for more info about Erly as well as an intro video about Collections, their first product. Or go to http://erly.com and give it a try. The team sollicits your feedback.

The concept and organization of the the Erly system corresponds to several Total Recall concepts: structuing one's life into segments of autobiographical memory, organizing content into collections, and providing various visualizations to display stories. Friends can add content and life segments can be uploaded to the social media sites.

]]>SenseCam walk in California Hillshttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2011/9/14/sensecam-walk-in-california-hills.htmlJim Gemmell2011-09-15T04:24:20Z2011-09-15T04:24:20ZA walk through the hills of California, captured by SenseCam.

]]>LifeLogging and Your Life Uploaded featured in London Timeshttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2011/9/13/lifelogging-and-your-life-uploaded-featured-in-london-times.htmlJim Gemmell2011-09-14T02:14:28Z2011-09-14T02:14:28ZIn Memories Are Made of Disks (subscription) Simon Cox rounds up a nice collection of LifeLogging interviewees, including Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell, Lyndsay Williams, Cathal Gurrin, and some skeptical neurologists and geographers. The skeptics are given a loud voice, especially in the print edition's "big brother" photo, but all angles are presented in an interesting way.

]]>ReadiBand - sleep tracking from your wristhttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2011/9/12/readiband-sleep-tracking-from-your-wrist.htmlJim Gemmell2011-09-13T01:00:25Z2011-09-13T01:00:25ZReadiBand is a wristwatch-like device which tracks wrist movements to estimate how you are sleeping:

Our scientifically proven system is highly accurate. A recent study showed that the ReadiBand™, coupled with our patented classification algorithms, assessed sleep virtually as well as sleep lab polysomnography (93% accurate).

Based on ReadiBand™ data, we provide a range of sleep statistics, such as sleep efficiency, sleep duration, and time to sleep onset. In addition, once the ReadiBand™ data are automatically processed through our patented and validated computer model, fatigue risk levels are calculated and displayed

The ReadiBand was recently used by the Vancouver Canucks in their NHL playoff run. In the video about the Canucks, they also mention wearing the device 24x7 and measuring the impact of sleep on reaction time.

I'm trying out a fitbit now. I wonder how ReadiBand compares?

]]>Maui beach walk on SenseCamhttp://totalrecallbook.com/blog/2011/8/26/maui-beach-walk-on-sensecam.htmlJim Gemmell2011-08-27T03:00:56Z2011-08-27T03:00:56Z

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