Al Jazeera is officially unveiling AJ+ and the AJ+ iPhone app, which aims to bring news and context to people who don't watch news on TV anymore.…
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Separating the news
Over time, news producers will become increasingly specialized, and news aggregators/publishers will become less dependent on in-house content.…
Read MoreCirca wants to rethink the way we consume the news on a sub-atomic level
A new app called Circa, from Cheezburger Network CEO Ben Huh, wants to make reading news on mobile devices easier by breaking down the traditional story format into its component parts. Co-founder Matt Galligan says the company is trying to rethink how we consume news.…
Read MoreSocial, mobile media increase news role for mainstream
News consumption continues to move towards digital media, with social and mobile media starting to show notable adoption. But Twitter isn't a mainstream news medium.…
Read MoreMedia companies and Twitter — still mostly doing it wrong
A new report from the Pew Research Center on mainstream media outlets and Twitter shows that the vast majority simply broadcast links to their own content. By doing so, unfortunately, they are missing out on many of the things that can make social media so powerful.…
Read MoreZite introduces multiple profiles for shared iPads
On Friday, Zite introduced a new update to its iPad app that includes a feature called Sybil, which allows Zite to create and switch between multiple profiles on one device. Zite can now recommend uniquely tailored content to more than one individual in a single household.…
Read MoreFeedly Update Makes Cross-Platform Feed Reading Awesome
Feedly, an RSS reader for iOS and Android devices is attracting lots of positive attention thanks to a new update. Originally introduced as an iPhone app in January, Tuesday Feedly got a major overhaul with the introduction of Feedly Mobile 2.0 for iPhone, iPad and Android.…
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Based on Twitter’s analysis of 25 billion tweets, these were its top trends of the year. Real news (the Gulf spill and…
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It’s not quite a news stream yet, but USA Today is going to start exposing its databases through APIs. The first two…
Read MoreDevelopers, Meet Your Hungry New Market: The News
Programmers can compete with journalists if they like, but they’d be wise to instead arm journalists with the power of their programming. Reporters and editors shouldn’t need to know how to code web apps any more than they should know how to create word processing apps or blogging platforms. Developers should create simple but flexible tools for creating the interactive and personalizable applications that will allow journalists to not only give their audiences the information they want but to also tell them stories they won’t hear anywhere else.…
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