"2ergo has created a mobile website that aims to bring Retail Week’s 20th anniversary conference to life, encouraging greater interaction between delegates, speakers and the organisers themselves."
"There's a new addition to the Evolving English web pages: an interactive map onto which anyone may upload a recording of their voice. To join in, you'll need access to an iPhone or Android-based smartphone, or a computer with a microphone and an internet connection. The voice map features two specially selected texts for you to read aloud."
Ken Doctor on Groupon: "the remorse being expressed in newspaper buildings across America this week is the same: Why didn’t we come up with that idea? The remorse should go deeper; check out the Groupon Merchant Services page, and try to find a similar one, with similar marketing support, offered by a newspaper company online. In fact, Groupon’s whole pitch to merchants, cheerfully animated in its Grouponomics section, is a textbook lesson in selling local."
"Today our first news project for iPad went online and we are proud like kids. Technically, it’s 'just'an HTML5 optimization, but it has been a demanding design process to get to the point of simplicity where it’s at right now."
Tim Glanfield: "even if you do have an iPad, why would you pay for the Daily and restrict yourself to ‘a tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence’ Murdoch-style when you can enjoy the myriad news providers of the web via their websites for free (or as part of your cripplingly expensive 3G package) on your tablet."
Tim Glanfield: "even if you do have an iPad, why would you pay for the Daily and restrict yourself to ‘a tabloid sensibility with a broadsheet intelligence’ Murdoch-style when you can enjoy the myriad news providers of the web via their websites for free (or as part of your cripplingly expensive 3G package) on your tablet."
Very interesting. What other service providers might bundle Times content to add value to network access? "Three, the telecoms company, is offering its mobile broadband customers three months free access to News International's sites for The Times and The Sunday Times from today."
Ed Roussel: "We are interested in recruiting, not an army, but a small number of people in interactive graphics and looking at what we can do to do a better job with video. ... The three biggest challenges for us editorially in the next year will be multimedia, multi-device tablets and smart phones and social media."
"Unlike other newspaper [iPhone] apps, which are generally based on a 30-day subscription model, Mail Online’s is free for the first 60 days, with payment options at £4.99 for six months or £8.99 for a year."
"The New York Times will license its technology to develop applications for Apple’s iPhone and iPad digital devices to other publishers as part of a plan to boost revenue from digital services. ... Companies that have agreed to license the mobile technology include the Telegraph Media Group ..."
"A market assessment commissioned by the BBC Trust to help it decide whether the BBC should release smartphone apps came to a view many will find surprising: that the paid apps goldrush will be extinguished by the mobile web in a few short years."
"Check out before you fork out! Now over 130,000 official local authority food hygiene inspection ratings from England and Northern Ireland as published on www.scoresonthedoors.org.uk. But with this app it enables you to get them on the move, find those around you, gives you directions and phone numbers."
"Most iAd-vertisers are paying $1 million just to be on the platform, and some are paying upwards of $10 million for certain degrees of exclusivity in a category, such as automotive. Agency execs close to the deals say some marketers are paying to keep their competitors off the iAd platform as 'presenting' and "charter" sponsors."
"Now [OK!] magazine’s publisher, Northern & Shell has released an iPhone app that is essentially a location-based guide to celebrity hangouts and misdemeanors. The app uses the iPhone’s location services to help you locate nearby celebrity haunts and find out which big names like to hang at them. ... Users can chat to staff writers via Twitter from the app and if they spot a celebrity, they can upload a geotagged image which may end up getting used in the magazine."