Jeff Sonderman
Jan. 13, 2012
9:41 am
Ad Age
McPheters & Co. finds at least one "serious shortcoming" in about a third of the 5,000 newspaper and magazine iPad apps it has evaluated for its iMonitor service. "Authentication errors, in which the app fails to recognize existing subscribers, are currently reported for almost half of the publications that offer digital versions free to print subscribers,"
CEO Rebecca McPheters writes. Broken links, crashes and stalled content downloads also are frequent. The error rates are lower for news apps that don't come from magazine or newspaper brands, she said, suggesting that better quality control and user feedback tools are needed.
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Jeff Sonderman
Jan. 10, 2012
3:25 pm
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Jeff Sonderman
Jan. 10, 2012
12:14 pm
The average person looking at a smartphone screen right now is more likely to come across news from your organization through a Facebook or Twitter app than through your own news app.
Recent studies of mobile and tablet audience behaviors… Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
Jan. 9, 2012
5:16 pm
Nielsen Wire
One-third of tablet and smartphone owners in a Nielsen survey said they had downloaded a news app within the past 30 days, and 19 percent had paid for one. The chart below shows survey results for news and… Read more
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Steve Myers
Jan. 6, 2012
3:55 pm
Philadelphia Inquirer
Three companies will get six months of free office space, equipment and support to develop an application that would be useful for Philadelphia Media Network, which includes the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Daily News and Philly.com. The three companies:
- CloudMine, a company that provides back-ends for mobile apps
- ElectNext, an app that tries to help people choose candidates based on issues
- SnipSnap, an app that lets users take photos of printed coupons and use them with their smart phones
Related: Media companies, ‘Please stop trying to make your own tablets' (Wired)
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Steve Myers
Jan. 5, 2012
8:45 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Jan. 4, 2012
10:49 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 9, 2011
10:56 am
Personalized news aggregator Zite, acquired by CNN in September, is going strong. Today it launches its first iPhone app, and earlier this week it began testing an innovative business model.
“So far CNN has been an ideal partner,” Zite… Read more
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Julie Moos
Dec. 9, 2011
8:46 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 8, 2011
9:53 am
Nieman Lab | NYTimes.com
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- Most news stories in the app collect related links from multiple sources.
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iPhone app and mobile website from the New York Times combines news from the Times and at least a dozen other competing news outlets. The Times has an editor curate the best reports from major newspapers, cable news, and even the Huffington Post -- aiming to tell readers "you literally
don’t have to go anywhere else for your political news."
Joshua Benton says the fact that aggregated links are just as prominent as the Times headlines "
feels noteworthy to me — I can’t think of anything else as linkbloggy that the Times has ever done."
The top six news stories in the iPhone app are available to anyone; the sections for opinion, election guide and multimedia are limited to digital subscribers whose package includes mobile access. Interestingly, the mobile Web version offers unlimited access to all the top stories, opinion columns and some of the election guide features you have to pay for in the iPhone app.
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