Twitter Integration

We’re happy to announce Twitter.com integration with SugarStats! Now you can quickly add sugar and med entries via Twitter direct message to our ss1 Twitter account.

The great thing about this is now you also have the ability to choose from the monstrous array of 3rd party twitter apps on top of Web, IM, SMS for inputting entries into SugarStats.

Now you can just send a Twitter message like this:

Then an entry of 108 goes directly into your SugarStats account at the date and time of the message; Comment optional.

If you want to share your sugar info with your Twitter circle you can enable the option within SugarStats to have new entries posted to your Twitter account. This is just the beginning and we’ll be improving it as time goes on, including adding events/tags.

For all the details and instructions check out our Twitter input help page

What is Twitter?

Twitter.com is the wildly popular micro-blogging service which allows people to answer one question very easily: “What are you doing?” in less then 140 characters. It is a great way to keep in contact with friends, family and also find out what other people are up to via Web, IM, SMS and Desktop applications.

For more info on Twitter go to Twitter.com and Twitter.com/faq

We’ll be rolling out a few small features soon. Here are a few notables:

• Added calendar based date selection in the sidebar
• Today and Yesterday links will always take you there based on your timezone
• Messaging has been slightly tweaked for quicker reading and replying
• Added carb averages per meal per day for premium users
• More intuitive date labeling for multi-day statistics
• dozens of other small bug fixes

Twitter.com and SugarStats.com Integration!

Another cool thing is Twitter integration, now you can input sugar and med entries directly from Twitter via the twitter website, SMS, IM, within Firefox and all the other great 3rd party Twitter utilities. Find the full details on our Twitter help page.

Email Input Format Modification

An important thing to mention is we’ve standardized the input format quite a bit so now inputting via Twitter and Email takes exactly the same format. Before you had a separate med email you had to specifically send mail to, now you just have one but you have to slightly modify the format of the entry.

Learn more on our email Input help page

As a means to provide as many ways to easily input information we’ve launch SugarStats Mobile Edition so you can easily input your statistics on the go.

We’ve built a very simplified mobile version for use on phones and PDA’s which have browsers that support HTML/XHTML.

All you have to do is open your mobile browser and go to http://m.sugarstats.com and login. To avoid excessive logging out you might want to select “remember me” on the login page.

Features:

We’re continually making new changes and additions but for now we’ve gone some basic functionality in place:

• Adding Sugars and Meds along with Foods and Activities if you have a premium account
• Deleting entries and notes
• Adding comments to those entries
• View entries for any day
• Add personal notes for any day
• Last 7 and 30 days trends and averages
• Browse to specific day

SugarStats Mobile Requirements:

1. Your phone’s browser needs to be HTML/XHTML compliant, this isn’t a WAP portal. A good test is to go to http://www.google.com/xhtml on your mobile phone and see if it works.
2. Your mobile browser needs to be able to handle cookies. You can find this in your browser settings and it is usually set by default
3. If you have a premium account your mobile browser needs to support SSL encryption.

Mobile Browser Recommendations:

Opera Mini:

We highly recommend those without Windows Mobile or Symbian devices to use Opera Mini as their web browser. It is just a fantastic mobile browser with great support and it runs on pretty much any device that supports Java.

You can find it here: http://www.operamini.com/ or you can download it directly by opening http://operamini.com on your mobile browser.

Minimo:

Another browser option for Windows Mobile 5 and above devices only is the Minimo project from the Mozilla foundation. Find more info here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/

Support

If you have any problems, requests, feedback or questions feel free to let us know: support@sugarstats.com

Khurt over at Honey Sweet posted a great review regarding his experience with SugarStats so far:

“SugarStats.com is a welcome addition to my overall diabetes management strategy. I can only imagine the wonderfully useful things that Marston and his team are working on.”

Well, we’ve officially been launched for a month now! We wanted to share some overall stats of the system, how we’re doing and a tiny bit of the great stuff to come If you haven’t already don’t forget to get your own account free.

We got hit and continue to get hit with loads of traffic but we’re happy to say things are holding up great.

We’ve gotten great response in these first 4 weeks of launch that have helped us greatly improve the system. Within just the first few days alone we had hundreds of new users sign up and thanks to people seeing the value of the system and spreading the word virally this trend is still happening.

First 30 Day Stats

Within the first 4 weeks of launch:

Sugar Readings

• Over 17,500 Sugar Entries Recorded.
• Averaging 147 mg/dL and 9.2 mmol/L respectively

Top 5 Meds:

1. Lantus
2. Humalog
3. Novalog
4. Metformin
5. NovoRapid

Foods

While only premium members can track food/carbs, plenty of food/carb tracking going on:

• Some of you LOVE yogurt, popcorn, peanut butter, orange juice and milk
• Over 2850 meals have been eaten via over 750 different foods
• Over 85,100g grams of carbs consumed
• Avg carbs per food entry: 134g
• Avg carbs per meal: 29g

Before and After Meal Sugar Readings

Before you ask, yes these types of graphs and trends will be making their way into your own SugarStats account. So you premium users can look forward to an even greater look into how your meals affect your blood sugars.

Overall Averages:

• Before Breakfast: 143 mg/dL
• After Breakfast: 154 mg/dL
• Before Lunch: 141 mg/dL
• After Lunch: 150 mg/dL
• Before Dinner: 151 mg/dL
• After Dinner: 158 mg/dL

Activities

Another premium only feature but very important to keep track of:

1. Over 6200 minutes of physical activity tracked. Over 103 hours.
2. Over 206 minutes per day (3.4 hours)

Some of your favorite exercises include:

1. Walking
2. Swimming (one of my favs)
3. Dancing
4. Yoga

Overall Averages (in mg/dL):

• Before Activity: 147
• After Activity: 150

What’s to come

Besides the few that really want to track everything in detail, we’ve gotten absolutely great response from you guys. You’ve told us you love how simple and easy to use the system is. This is great to hear as that is what it was built for, so the average diabetic will actually WANT to use it and then actually be able to understand the statistics.

Even so there are plenty of places we can improve on and you’re helping greatly with that. While we won’t go into detail on our future plans (gotta keep some excitement huh? ), we’re working on some really cool stuff. We’ll give a few little hints:

• Would you like to share your stats (on your blog etc) for all to see your progress?
• Think your mobile phone/PDA browser could be more useful for adding entries?
• Would you like to add friends within SugarStats to see their stats and create a support system?
• Do you use Twitter, Facebook, MySpace etc?
• Want to show your people better and more informative graphs? (especially for premium users)

Ok ok, thats enough for now. We don’t have dates for specific features but there is plenty of exciting stuff going on over here So don’t forget to create your free account.

Finally, THANK YOU

And finally a big thanks to all our users and BETA testers who have helped craft the site and application. Your support and feedback has been tremendous and we really appreciate all of it. Stay tuned because there is more to come for sure!

I was able to have a very quick but nice chat with Maria over at MarketIntelNow.com. She is composing a series of articles regarding PHR’s (Personal Health-care Records) and some of the new innovators in the field.

We spoke on many things such as SugarStats’ stance on PHR’s, our business model and our progress so far. Please forgive the typing errors as it was a bit rushed

http://marketintellnow.blogspot.com/2007/07/spotlight-report-personal-health_15.html

We have a great addition to the SugarStats blog: Manny Hernandez. Not only is Manny a diabetic himself, he is a very passionate SugarStats user and the creator of the great social networking site for diabetics: www.tudiabetes.com

So we wanted go give Manny a big welcome as he’ll be contributing some good stuff from time to time.

We’re Growing!

While we’re passionate about greating a simple and easy to use sugar tracking and diabetes management app, we also want to provide great articles, news and discussions here on our blog. So we’re growing our blogger network.

If you are passionate about these issues, are a diabetic and wish to contribute to SugarStats then let use know: info@sugarstats.com

SugarStats.com Launched! – Simple Blood Sugar Tracking. Online

We’re happy to announce we’re launching our blood sugar tracking and diabetes management website, SugarStats.com, to the online diabetic community.

Check out our shiny press release

With 194 million people worldwide and 21 million in the U.S. alone coping with diabetes daily, hopefully we can help make a difference and utilize all this great technology at our disposal to help keep things under control.

We built SugarStats to be simple and easy to use. You input and access your info via a web browser for easy access no matter where you are. So whether at home, on the road or in the office, you’re connected. You can then easily share your stats with your family, friends or health-care professional.

With SugarStats you will be able to:

• Bring your readings online. Get rid of that pen & paper log!
• Track & manage meds, foods/carbs and physical activity
• Drill down into specific time frames to get a clear overview
• Visualize your progress with easy to read graphs and trends
• Share your statistics with your family, friends or doctor
• Access your info from any modern web browsers
• Have a clear and easy-to-use interface to view your stats

Sign up Free – Takes less than 30 seconds

To create your free account simply go to:

http://manage.sugarstats.com/subscriptions

For more info on SugarStats go to http://www.sugarstats.com
or
Take a screenshot tour of at http://www.sugarstats.com/tour

Questions, Inquiry or Support

Any questions or troubles just email us at support@sugarstats.com
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