Sharing your Nokia Sports Tracker trips with the Nseries Widget
Written by Glenn Letham
03 November 2008
I’ve been a long-time fan and user of Nokia Sports Tracker. Infact, I’ve considered it to be one of the best location-aware mobile apps anywhere… hands-down!
To date the app has been fun, simple to use, and useful, however, it lacked in the “sharing” capabilities… ie. it’s been tough to share my tracks with others and to tell my contacts about new sports tracks. No more though thanks to a clever little widget that the team has developed. The Nseries widget enables users of Sports Tracker to embed sports tracks within several popular social networking resources, including: blogger, facebook, igoogle and a couple of others.
The widget is supposed to enable Nseries device users to share their maps, music, and media - I’m having trouble with the music part but nonetheless, it still works.
To use the widget you need to be a sports Tracker user - see here. Then, you jump to the Nseries widget page and follow the instructions. Simply click get the widget, select a cool color that will blend with your blog, name your widget, enter your sports tracker account user name to activate, then grab the code. Finally, sports tracker is getting even better! I was dissapointed to see that the music wasn’t shared with my tracks, however, I may need to test that part a little more. The functionality from the widget seems to emulate closely what you may have heard about before in the Nokia Vine Beta project… more on that soon! See below for my Sports Tracks via the widget. Note: may not be supported by all web browsers. You can also jump to this page where I’ve embedded the widget into a blogger page (blogger is supported by the widget)
Some initial observations:
music played along journey was not shared with my upload (within sports tracker or the widget)
descriptions of locations displayed in the widget are very odd and don’t make sense! It seems that place name features of roads of other local POIs are being used to describe the location, whereas the city or town name would make more sense.
Video playback within widget is painfully slow (could be an issue with my web browser)
News and details of the widget are hidden - just a fluke that I stumbled onto it!
share your Nokia Sports Tracks
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Widget is placed below. If you see a large blank area then your web browser does not support this. I believe Flash 9 is required! If you can’t see the actual widget on this page then check out this page hosted on Blogger (supported by the app) - be sure to click on the “view past journeys” tab on the bottom!
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