I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to bring news to the Nokia Sports Tracker Beta migration to Sports Tracking Technologies issue!
I received a surprise phone call two days ago from Jussi Kaasinen, one of the two-person core team of developers responsible for bringing the Nokia Sports Tracker Beta project to us since March of 2007. Together with the other half of that team, Ykä Huhtala, they founded their own company named Sports Tracking Technologies back in June of this year. Jussi told me that his call was partly in response to my earlier post and partly just to touch base with a long-standing user of the service.
Jussi wanted me to let everyone know that the Sports Tracking Technologies (STT) incarnation is very much alive and kicking, and that they have appreciated the huge volumes of suggestions and feedback that continually flood their inboxes every day. He also apologized for the “quietness” throughout the exhausting process of migrating from Nokia. STT is slightly larger now than the original two-person core team, but their available resources have been especially limited due to complicated intellectual property issues; Jussi said, “You wouldn’t believe the amount of diligent individuals it has taken to make this transfer the amicable success that it is!.” Our conversation lasted for about a half hour.
I will not be able to make any major announcements on their behalf today, sorry. What I can tell you is that STT are working around the clock to ready a variety of feature enhancements and compatibility refinements for products and services which promise to remain wholly sports-centric. Jussi agreed with my opinion that the “Ovi Journeys: The Evolution of Sports Tracker” recent write-up is more of an evolution of the former “Vine” project than anything to do with the new STT. Nokia wil remain in the picture, solely and importantly (imo), as a client of STT.
One thing is clear: STT are passionate about their horizons and are committed to the development and integrity of the Sports Tracker service.
I will continue my dialogue with STT later this week, so stay tuned.
#1 by nayigeta on 2009/10/22 - 13:13
This is really a nice piece of news to hear on NST. The recent silence has been unbearable, which pined along with a unwilling desire to watch my favourite app from fading off.
Now this is a understandable. Thanks for this pseudo news update on their behalf.
And now wanting to see STT track into limelight stronger and better than before.
#2 by simplex99 on 2009/10/25 - 11:40
This is really good news. There are lots of runners that love the Nokia Sports Tracker and are dying to get bugfixes and new features.
Good luck to the STT-guys. Have a good start!