Post by Marston

A SugarStats New Year - Happy New Years to All!!

Monday, December 31st, 2007

2007 has been a great year, so much has happened and we’ve grown so much. Based on how things are going now 2008 is going to be one AMAZING year for SugarStats and thank each and every one of you for helping make that happen.

Things are happening so fast and we’ve got a ton of new stuff coming out in the coming months so stay tuned!

So from everyone on the SugarStats team, to all our blog readers and diabetic users, we wish you all a very happy and safe new year!


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Post by Marston

Diabetes Goal Setting for 2008!! What are your goals?

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

The new year is approaching and for many that means a whole slew of goal setting and resolutions.

I had the great pleasure to be able to physically join Charlie Cherry and the gang in the studio for an episode of the DiabetesPowerShow a few weeks ago and now that has just been released.

The topic of the show was goal setting and diabetic resolutions for this upcoming year. It was also great as we had Manny from TuDiabetes.com join us on the phone and we all went over the various tools out there, especially online, which we can utilize to make those goals a reality.

It is a great episode with of course lots of motivation and enthusiasm so definitely check it out.

You can download it directly here: http://www.diabetespowershow.com/

I know my main goal has been to get my A1c into the 5-6.0 range. Though I am quite happy over the last 6 months I’ve got it down over 3%!! Almost there :-) What are your diabetes goals for 2008? Share them over at TuDiabetes.com


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Post by askmanny

A Glucose Meter Designed for Kids?

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Yep! I just learned about the Glucoboy today.

From their web site:

The Glucoboy is the first blood glucose meter that has been designed specially for kids, adolescents and the young at heart.
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In addition to a stand-alone blood glucose meter, the Glucoboy contains 2 full length video games and a mini-arcade. To access the video games, the Glucoboy must be inserted into the cartridge slot on a Nintendo Game Boy® Advance System, or into the Game Boy® cartridge slot on a Nintendo DS.

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Seems like an interesting incentive, if you ask me… However, it would be amazing if it gave you credits too for running or other physical activity, since playing games will not precisely help with your blood sugars.

If you want to chat with others about Glucoboy and other diabetes-related matters, join TuDiabetes.com – a community for people touched by diabetes.


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Post by info

New Features: Public Sharing, Multiple Entry Input and Updated Mobile Input Commands

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Public Sharing

We’re introducing a small new feature for all accounts called Public URL sharing. This makes things a bit easier to share your statistics while at the same time not having to create a TrustedVue login for everyone you to see them.


SugarStats Public Diabetes Stats Sharing Link

What will I see?

You’ll now see a “Share” link at the top of many pages. When Public Sharing is turned on you’ll then be presented with a URL you can copy/paste and send anywhere and to anyone you like. Put it in an Email, Blog post, Social Network, Instant Message or anywhere else you like. You basically get an address you can hotlink anywhere.

What will viewers see?

When people go to this page, they’ll see your statistics in a read-only view as well as a limited navigation for common pages. It is similar to what TrustedVue users see, but with a limited subset of data and they isn’t any messaging. For your immediate diabetes support team and the people you trust, we still recommend giving them each a TrustedVue login.

Right now you can only share single day pages and multi-day statistics/trend pages. We’ll be implementing the graphs in the near future :-)

Privacy

You’re data is of course up to you to choose to share so public sharing is disabled by default. You can easily turn it on my clicking the checkbox in your settings.


SugarStats Public Diabetes Stats Sharing Link

For more info on Public Sharing and how to enable it please visit the Public Sharing Help Wiki Page

Multiple Entry Single Input Form

This has been a popular request and is something that will hopefully make it easier to input a large amount of various entries at once. This makes it easy to input all your sugar, med, food and activity entries in one form at the end of the day for example.

We give you quite a few by default and you can always add more by clicking, well, “Add More” :-) Blank entries will be skipped so you don’t have to worry about removing them before submitting.


SugarStats Multiple Diabetes Entry Input Form

Set time for entries input via Email or Twitter

Now you can input entries later in the day and still specify a specific time in which the entry happened earlier. Specifying the time is optional and looks like this:

Some examples Via Email:

bg 146 at 11am This is my comment
bg 190 at 1:10pm 
bg 111 @ 12pm
med [med_mobile_code] 6 at 8:15am optional comment
med [med_mobile_code] 10 @ 11pm

Some examples via Twitter.com:

d ss1 bg 146 at 11am This is my comment
d ss1 bg 190 at 1:10pm 
d ss1 bg 111 @ 12pm
d ss1 med [med_mobile_code] 6 at 8:15am optional comment
d ss1 med [med_mobile_code] 10 @ 11pm
Up next we’ll be working on ways to input food and activity entries as well as set events/tags for each entry so stay tuned. For more info check out the Mobile Input Help Page

Other changes

We’ve made a few smaller changes as well:

  • Overall design tweaks throughout the application.
  • Added compression to the web pages meaning things should feel a bit snappier
  • Improved the messaging in SugarStats. Messages are displayed in a nicer format.
  • RSS Feeds for the public view. Private RSS feeds for non-public shared accounts coming soon.
  • Tons of minor bug fixes

We’ve got tons of even more great new stuff coming out very soon too so stay tuned!


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