Runner’s World magazine today announced the release of its SmartCoach iPhone app, which creates customized training guides for race distances between a 5-K and a marathon. Users can input their most recent race time, weekly and long-term distance goals, training level (maintenance, moderate, hard or very hard), the day they’d like to schedule their long runs and the amount of time they’d like to train for (up to 16 weeks) to receive their customized plan. The app suggests a running distance and pace that varies each day, increasing in distance and speed and then tapering off shortly before race day.

Android cameras just keep getting better. They’ve got great movie-making capabilities, killer flashes, and the megapixels are on the rise with each new Android device that hits the market

Two new Droid commercials just uploaded to YouTube show off the futuristic capabilities of a couple brilliant applications. Runstar is the star of “Dust,” a spot that shows how Droid owners can track their fitness routines and share their stats over social networks.

Two new Droid commercials just uploaded to YouTube show off the futuristic capabilities of a couple brilliant applications.

Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference , April 30th-May 2nd in Silicon Valley, which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, and Twitter, along with Tony Hsieh from Zappos and many others, to explore living wisely in our modern age. Mashable readers can use code Mashable for a discount when registering .

Fitness-related applications aren’t exactly a rarity on the iPhone; there’s a whole category devoted to them. Mostly, however, they help you keep a training log or calculate how many calories you’ve burned.

The new iPod Nano is also one of the world’s smallest video cameras. We think it could be a game changer . As it turns out, it could also create a new kind of privacy problem.

We have received multiple reports that a new, convincing, and dangerous worm and phishing scam is making the rounds on Twitter. Hacked accounts are sending DMs to users and stealing their login information

Yesterday we covered the news of the George Sodini blog that foretold of his plans to commit the LA Fitness killings. Today Sodini’s web presence is once again in the news as it was discovered he had a YouTube account to which he posted a video called “Hide from Emotion” a year ago. The picture the video paints is of a man in unstable emotional state, but Sodini also outlines his goals for the next 20 years, suggesting he had no plans to harm himself or others a year ago.

The social media world is under attack. Earlier this morning, Twitter acknowledged that its downtime was the result of a malicious Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS), and now Facebook tells us that their intermittent site problems are also the result of DDoS activity. According to a Facebook spokesperson “Earlier this morning, Facebook encountered network issues related to an apparent distributed denial of service attack, that resulted in degraded service for some users.