Monthly Archives: September 2009

More than 2bn iPhone/iTouch apps downloaded

By Julie Starr | Published: September 29, 2009
More than 2 billion apps have been downloaded from Apple’s app store for iPhones and iTouch devices, Apple announced yesterday. There are now more than 85,000 apps available to the more than 50 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide and over 125,000 developers in Apple’s iPhone Developer Program. Today, iPhone and iPod touch customers [...]
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Fun with embeddable maps from koordinates

By Julie Starr | Published: September 26, 2009
I was just having a little play with the maps and datasets on http://koordinates.com – the brainchild of New Zealanders Ed Corkery and Rob Coup – and decided to see what ‘Hamilton 0.5 contours 2008′ would look like embedded: Hamilton 0.5m Contours 2008 from KoordinatesHamilton 0.5m Contours 2008 on Koordinates I love it that you [...]
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NY times runs online courses for its readers

By Julie Starr | Published: September 26, 2009
Here’s one way to add value for readers above and beyond the daily news – and add a revenue stream at the same time. The New York  Times runs online courses for its readers, which include sessions with the paper’s columnists. Nieman Lab reports: They’re offering week-long, largely online courses for Times readers who pay [...]
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WashPo trials a visual commenting system

By Julie Starr | Published: September 21, 2009
Patrick Thornton has reviewed the Washington Post’s new visual ‘WebCom’ commenting system on Poynter online. It’s not being used site-wide, only on “Flash-based video features such as onBeing and Scene In.” [Steven] King [the site's editor of innovations] said the site will start using WebCom on other videos later this year. There are no plans [...]
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Technology is huge. Why only one page a week?

By Julie Starr | Published: September 21, 2009
The daily news business gives us an odd, distorted view of the world doesn’t it? In New Zealand, for example, you could be forgiven for thinking there’s little in the way of technological development going on, given that the main daily newspapers devote a pathetic one page a week to the subject, if that. A [...]
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