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Nokia Sports Tracker Update: Sports Tracking Technologies

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October 21, 2009

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 More >

Nokia to Salvage Their Stake in Sports Tracker

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October 15, 2009

Thanks to Vaibhav Sharma of TheSymbianBlog, we had news yesterday from the Ovi Maps team that Nokia Sports Tracker Beta (NST) is “evolving” into a Maps component, called Ovi Journeys. I’ve been anticipating a move like this ever since Nokia made a statement that they would be “…giving Sports Tracker wings…” a couple months ago.

For those of us who have been following NST closely from the beginning, the last time the it’s developers (Ykä Huhtala and Jussi Kaasinen) engaged their audience directly was about a year ago. Since then there’s been a virtual blackout, save for server change/downtime announcements. And yes, I am including the Polar for Nokia heart rate monitor experiment. In today’s fast-paced and crowded application market, many notable apps have been refined by developers directly responding to user feedback. However, if our guys at NST are listening, no one would ever know.

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