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New Yorker: New Yorker cover designed with iPhone ‘finger-painting’ app
This week’s cover of the New Yorker was drawn by Jorge Colombo using an iPhone application called Brushes – akin to finger-painting. Watch the video below to see Colombo at work:
TEAMtalk goes all a Twitter for football finale
It’s a bank holiday weekend here in the UK and the end of the season for the Premier League football clubs and promotion play offs in League One and League Two – so why not have some tweets with your footy?
BSkyB owned football website TEAMtalk is going to be using Twitter (@TEAM_talk) to covering breaking news from the games – but aims to be more than just an automated updates feed. The site’s journalists will offer more info and analysis via the service.
Access to Sky’s live football feeds makes the reporting possible, Jon Holmes, mobile editor, sport, of TeamTalk, told Journalism.co.uk.
According to a report on Revolution, ITV is also getting in on the social media act, embedding Twitter updates relating to certain players onto pages on ITV.com.
“The tool provides images of each player and ranks them based on the number of mentions they get on microblog Twitter. ITV is also giveing the chance to comment on the game through AudioBoo, the audio comment service available for iPhone users,” reports Revolution.
Another development from the Telegraph’s use of Twitterfall to aggregate tweets around key Premiership terms on its live match pages.
Folio: Publishers relishing iPhone apps
Magazine publishers are realising the potential of iPhone apps to promote their content and title, but also to create innovative revenue streams.
Advancing The Story: Why Missouri J-School is asking students to have iPhones
While iPhones could be a tool for students to experiment with mobile journalism, the journalism school at the University of Missouri is making the device a requirement for new students for another reason entirely: the institute is going to make its lectures available for free on iTunes.
Is this requirement necessary, asks Deborah Potter, especially if students can access them through iTunes.
But a good free resource for non-Missouri students too.
BBC Journalism Labs: New mobile sites – what’s in it for the reader?
The BBC has relaunched its sport and news mobile sites – but how does their new look benefit the user.
One significant addition – stories on the mobile site will now update 60 seconds after a journalist has published.
Some good advice here on accessible mobile site design too.
Editor&Publisher: National Post creates barcoding to access digital
The National Post has introduced a barcode system, which readers can scan with a mobile to access updated digital content – the first newspaper to do so in North America, it claims.
The paper is looking into using the barcoding, which makes use of technology from Scanbuy, for advertising and competitions.
AP to serve local ads on mobile?
Tucked away in the Associated Press’ (AP) many announcements yesterday – more action on copyright infringements, rate cuts for members – was news from president Tom Curley that the agency will soon launch a pilot program for local ad sales on mobile
No specifics as yet – but local and mobile were clearly focus points for the AP’s annual meeting.
According to comments from AP president Tom Curley, more than 1,100 members have signed up to the AP mobile service, launched in April last year, monthly traffic has topped 38 million page views.
What format will the advertising take? Hopefully highly relevant and tailored to the user if it’s local news they’re consuming, but also, low cost, low barrier to the advertiser perhaps. Experiments with such ad deals, for example in the UK CN Group’s network of hyperlocal news sites, have scored some successes. And if traffic to AP’s mobile news network is as strong as suggested, there’s a real opportunity here to get local, traditional advertisers more involved in the burgeoning mobile space.
Citizenzide launches English iPhone app
Amateur photography and video platform backed by Agence France Presse (AFP), Citizenside has launched an English version of its iPhone application in beta.
The app is intended as a mobile news reporting app for news organisations
“We’re really proud of this V1.2 application as French contributors are using the 1.1 version more and more and understand its goals: share news, faster,” Matthieu Stefani, vice president of Citizenside, told Journalism.co.uk in an email.
“As the international application market is more than 20 times bigger than French one, let’s hope we will receive more than 20 times more pictures.”
In an interview last month, Stefani told us the app will tap into an existing community of picture-sharers and amateur videojournalists, as well as promoting geotagged submissions.
Guardian mobile; Daily Mail targets US audience on Kindle
Guardian.co.uk will be available as a new mobile site from March, a release from the publisher has confirmed.
Specific versions of m.guardian.co.uk will be available for iPhone and Blackberry handsets will be released. The decision to launch a dedicated mobile site follows growing mobile traffic to the Guardian, Adam Freeman, commercial director, said in the statement.
Distribution deals for mobile content have been signed with 3 and Vodafone. The site itself will be ad-supported.
Meanwhile the Daily Mail is planning to make its content available on the US version of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader, according to a report from NMA – part of a push to capitalise on the Mail’s growing US audience. The site previously told Journalism.co.uk that its commercial focus remains on the UK, but perhaps this marks the beginnings of an overseas push.