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dustpaint
dustpaint
SF News iphone app
Feb 25 2009, 7:35 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 25 2009, 7:35 PM EST
Wondering if anyone has seen a news iphone App that works well? Seems like this would be a way to charge & invest in the kind of news offering you are proposing and it would give easy 1-touch access to the service for any iphone user. Perhaps filter settings would allow users to see/not see the various kinds of content you are proposing. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
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alexismadrigal
alexismadrigal
1. RE: SF News iphone app
Feb 25 2009, 9:54 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 25 2009, 9:54 PM EST
Personally, I like the New York Times iPhone app. I think you're right. We'd need a GREAT iPhone app. One interesting thing to do would be to cut content deals with the blogs who can't afford their own app. You help them get onto the device, they help you fill it with good content. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    
dustpaint
dustpaint
2. RE: SF News iphone app
Feb 27 2009, 12:36 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 27 2009, 12:36 PM EST
Downloading the NYTimes iPhone app right now. Working content deals with the blogs might be interesting - key is to avoid non-targeted content overload for the user. Do you find this valuable?    
JimmyStamp
JimmyStamp
3. RE: SF News iphone app
Feb 27 2009, 9:26 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 27 2009, 9:26 PM EST
NPR Mobile is a pretty unique iPhone app. They've broken up all the segments of all their shows into tiny morsels of news, interviews, music, or poetry and then made them browsable through a series of various categories and subcategories. Think of the original iPod: browse by genre, artist, album, or song. There's also a straight-up search function and a way to bookmark your favorite pieces. 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    

BradNeuberg
4. RE: SF News iphone app
Feb 27 2009, 10:29 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 27 2009, 10:30 PM EST
BTW, there are now alternatives to creating Objective C based iPhone apps, which can be hard to update and which can have distribution issues. The latest iPhone now has features in its web browser which can be used to make web-based offline newspapers, something known as the HTML 5 Application Cache. I've made a short video on Youtube that talks about the tech features needed to do this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pBOmO4aL54&feature=email 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?    

BradNeuberg
5. RE: SF News iphone app
Feb 27 2009, 10:32 PM EST | Post edited: Feb 27 2009, 10:32 PM EST
"BTW, there are now alternatives to creating Objective C based iPhone apps, which can be hard to update and which can have distribution issues. The latest iPhone now has features in its web browser which can be used to make web-based offline newspapers, something known as the HTML 5 Application Cache. I've made a short video on Youtube that talks about the tech features needed to do this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pBOmO4aL54&feature=email"
If you wanted to do a fancy UI you could also make it browser based using the iPhone's CSS Animations, with lots of transitions and animations. Here's a demo you can see on your iPhone. In your iPhone open the browser and go to the following URL:

http://tinyurl.com/dx64ch (points to http://webkit.org/blog-files/leaves/index.html but is easier to type)

Technical details here on the official Webkit blog:

http://webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/ 1  out of 1 found this valuable. Do you?