Tag Archives: mobile

“The screen will shape our environment in the 21st century”

I missed Wilson Miner’s talk at Webstock (can’t remember why just now). So I was very pleased to come across this version of his talk online. There are some lovely insights here about change – and how profoundly the world our readers and customers inhabit is changing right now. The screen What’s your time to [...]
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#One liners – the heroically uninformed, comic strips & NZ’s broadband problem

  “Nobody should be that young, but the problem presented by these busy tyros is that they have no sense of the past even when it comes to the medium they have chosen to bless with their brash but heroically uninformed presence.” - Clive James on the lack of tone, culture and accuracy set by [...]
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‘I hate phone numbers’

I had one of those ‘hmm, interesting’ moments when I read this post about the shelf life of phone numbers. A recommended read.   I hate phone numbers. They’re a relic of an outmoded system that both wireless and wireline carriers use to keep people trapped on their services — a false technological prison built of [...]
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Mobile & tablets wrap: Telegraph on Apple, Playboy on iPad, Sony goes honeycomb

A few links from catch-up reading… Telegraph iPad app offers Apple subs The Daily Telegraph has signed up to Apple’s strict terms on digital subscriptions with its new iPad app. The app is free to download but charges readers £1.19 for a single edition, or £9.99 for a monthly subscription. Telegraph newspaper subscribers get full [...]
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Fresh takes on news delivery

Steve Rubel describes three ways newspapers are experimenting with delivery: rich, searchable email editions; hyper-vertical navigation (ability to drill down to more and more specific pages of information), and innovative mobile apps. Nice idea to track new developments in this crucial area.
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