I’ve been fiddling with the mobile location-based social networking game Foursquare for a few months now. The concept is simple: as you move around a city you ‘check in’ to locations. You can see where your friends last checked in, and you can add comments as you go. But does it have journalistic uses? I think it does. Here are
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We’re all being told that mobile is the next big thing for news, but what does it mean to have a good mobile news application? Just as an online news site is a lot more than a newspaper online, a mobile news application is a lot more than news stories on a small screen. The better iPhone news apps integrate
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Steve Outing highlights how Men’s Health are exploring the new features of the 3.0 iPhone/iPod Touch operating system: “Now, in addition to charging for the app itself, publishers can charge for additional (premium) content from within the app. “Here’s how it works with the Men’s Health app: Once on your iPhone, you get 18 workouts that the application guides you
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One of those rather dry-sounding reports on TechCrunch that some-company-has-raised-some-investment-for-some-technology caught my eye recently, because in par 2 comes this: “Conveneer is building a mobile platform called Mikz, which will be able to assign a URL to your mobile phone, making the content on your phone accessible on the Web. In essence, it turns each mobile phone into a Web
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