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El Paso, San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Albuquerque are among America's 10 fittest cities, according to Facebook data.
They're joined by Colorado Springs, Virginia Beach, Portland, Tacoma, Austin, and Livingston, N.J. Facebook came up with this list by tracking fitness-related comments and updates, check-ins and app usage over the past three months in cities where at least 200,000 people use the world's largest social network.
Facebook also analyzed mentions of specific fitness-related activities to see what's popular in various cities. According to the data, people in Oakland like to get down as America's most dance-crazed city, San Diego has the most marathoners and folks in Austin are pretty obsessed with yoga.
More of Facebook's findings are presented in the following infographic. Check it out for yourself; then let us know how well you think this social data reflects real life in the comments, below.
Yelp on Tuesday announced the ability to get food delivery and pickup on the platform, the first steps in a new functionality that lets users interact directly with businesses.
The company is launching the new program, called Platform, with a few restaurants affiliated with Delivery.com and Eat24 including Republic in New York and Layaly Mediterranean Grill in San Francisco. Eventually, Yelp will offer delivery and pickup via thousands of other U.S. restaurants.
That's not all. "In the coming months, we’ll add categories like spas, yoga studios, salons and dentist appointments starting with Booker, Intuit’s Demandforce and MindBody," Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman (pictured) wrote in a blog post. "Consumers can expect us to add more categories in the future."
For Yelp, which had previously only offered customer ratings and basic information about businesses, Platform represents a new area of business that puts it on a collision course withSeamless.
For five seasons, each episode of AMC's Emmy Award-winning series Breaking Bad has begun with a title sequence that includes the symbols for bromine and barium, Br and Ba.
And now, thanks to AMC's Breaking Bad Name Lab app, the show's fans can generate images with symbols from the periodic table in their own names.
Since its launch on June 26, more than 1.4 million people have used the Facebook app — 20,000 of whom accessed it in the first four minutes it was available, according to an AMC rep.
What's more, Breaking Bad has gained 80,000 Facebook fans since the app launched, bringing its likes to a total of 4.7 million. (The show also has 338,000 Twitter followers.)
Calling the end result a "personalized periodic table name," the Name Lab app is accessible viaBreaking Bad's Facebook page and www.breakingbadnamelab.com. Users click "Get Started" and the app automatically generates a "personalized periodic table name" with element symbols replacing various letters in the fan's name.
Fans are then given the option to download a cover photo or profile picture and can share these images on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. The images also include the hashtag #allbadthingsmustcometoanend — a nod to the critically acclaimed series' eight final episodes, which will begin airing in August.
The app is not the only promotional element to feature names; AMC has also released a promotional poster featuring actor Bryan Cranston, who plays central character Walter White, and the words "Remember My Name."
"We launched the app to complement the tease campaign that is out in the marketplace now, 'All Bad Things Must Come to An End,'" says Gina Hughes, AMC's senior vice president of marketing, in a written statement. "We wanted to give the fans a unique and organic way to engage with the series and build excitement for the final eight episodes, which premiere this summer."
The season finale for the first half of season five, which aired in September 2012, had 2.8 million viewers. AMC says that was up 47% over the season four finale.
Created by writer, producer and director Vince Gilligan and produced by Sony Pictures Television, Breaking Bad follows what AMC describes as "the story of a desperate man who turns to a life of crime to secure his family's financial future."
The series has received seven Emmy Awards and a Peabody. Breaking Bad has also been named to the American Film Institute's list of the Top 10 Programs of the Year in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
Back in April, we brought you the story of an amazing hovercraft golf cart PGA star Bubba Watson demoed in spectacular fashion. Alas, we noted with some displeasure, the incredible vehicle was just a prototype and not available for public consumption.
Well, all that's about to change.
The Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield, Ohio, has just bought two of the BW1 contraptions for its customers to use. The course paid $58,000 apiece for the nifty get-arounds and patrons will soon be able to rent them for a yet-to-be-determined rate for select events, SB Nation reports.
As seen in Watson's viral YouTube video embedded above, the BW1 — which glides across greens and water hazards alike while leaving traditional carts in its dust — is pretty much the sweetest thing to hit golf since the Arnold Palmer drink.
Windy Knoll is currently the only golf course to possess BW1s of its own, and plans to introduce its new additions at a "Hover Bash" on July 27.
How much would you pay to rent one of these bad boys? Let us know in the comments.
