LifeMojo’s Calorie Search on GTalk and GMail Chat was mentioned in the July 31st issue of Forbes India (page 111). Seems like few of our users at Network 18 or the Forbes Team have been using this for a while and love it.
Thanks a bunch for the coverage guys.
LifeMojo’s calorie search on GTalk and GMail was covered in today’s (8th April 2009) Economic Times. Here is a link to the article on the e version of Economic Times. Click on the image below to view the Article (as an image).
Few of our users from US wrote to us, complaining that we do not have US Food Items on LifeMojo. We interacted with a couple of them and we got to know that although there are a lot of websites which allow them to track their daily food intake and activities, they love the simplicity of LifeMojo and would love to track their lifestyle here. 
We recently added a lot of food items (close to 8000) on LifeMojo and soon realized the simplicity of auto complete while tracking food items was getting lost. This was because of the wide variety of food items available in US. So we added Food Preferences. Since majority of our users till now are Indians, we have kept the default Food Preference as Indian.
Similar to the food items, our users wanted to specify the default units that they enter their weight, running distance, measured height etc. in. So we added the preferences for them as well. The default preferences are set aptly for an Indian users, but you can always change the preferences by either going to “Profile & Settings” -> 
or by clicking on the links just below your profile completeness progress bar on myMojo.
You can also specify your Food Preferences while doing a calories search on GTalk or GMail chat. The food preferences on GTalk are by default set to Indian, you can change it by sending international as a chat message or switch back to indian by sending indian as a chat message.
We added Time Zone preferences along with these preferences as well, which was kind of long due form our side.
Rajiv at WATBlog tried out and loved the Calorie Seach using GTalk, a feature we launched 3 days back. Till now we have had 42 users use this service in just 3 days of the launch. Here is what he had to say:
I just stumbled upon Lifemojo’s blog the new startup we covered a while back and came across a new tool launch which I completely loved.
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All in all this is one of the most useful and intelligent tools ive seen in a longtime.
Thank you Rajiv for your kind words, we are glad that you like our calorie lookup feature. Hope we would continue to help you on your weight loss mission
Rajiv had reviewed LifeMojo on WATBlog earlier on 16th November.
Update: We have 124 user using Calorie Search on GTalk till now. Which means 82 new Users in one day (7th Jan).
Lot of you had appreciated calorie lookup on LifeMojo, so we had introduced Calorie Lookup on Mobile around a month ago. Your response to the Mobile Calorie Lookup has been phenomenal! we thank you all for that and in order to make the Calorie Lookup even more accessible, today we are launching the calorie lookup using your favorite Instant Messenger GTalk or the Chat in Gmail.
Now you can access the calorie content of any food item or the calorie burnt by any activity, by sending the name of the food item or activity as a chat message to calories@lifemojo.com (You would have to add calories@lifemojo.com to your friend list first)
Eg. Message rice to calories@lifemojo.com and you would get a response with a list of different types of rice verities and their calorie content as a response.
To get detailed information about any item, send the exact name like lemon rice to calories@lifemojo.com and you would get a response with the details.
Hope you will find this useful. As always, we are looking forward to your feedback and suggestions.
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