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Reuters readers spend 3 times as long on the iPad app than on Reuters.com
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BBC iPlayer on the iPad
Morten Eidal:
We decided that the best route to implement our video and audio player was playback using the html5 video tag. This allows us to integrate the native player into our site, where we serve two H.264 flavours, one 1500kbps for the high quality video (default), and a lower 800kbps you can use if you are bandwidth constrained.
In any case, the result is the Beta version you can see right now – we really hope you like it – delivered by a small team of 5 within just 4 weeks and with the generous support of our FM&T colleagues despite being already busy with the UK election, iPlayer V3, and now the World Cup.
And don't forget, soon we will embark on incorporating the iPlayer V3 features for Bigscreen.
But that is chapter two.
Gestures
Lukas Mathis:
Gestures are often not obvious and hard to discover; the user interface doesn’t tell you what you can do with an object. Instead, you have to remember which gestures you can use, the same way you had to remember the commands you could use in a command line interface.
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The gesture is the verb. This works if the gesture is intuitive, but breaks down if there is no «natural» gesture for a verb. And since there is no intuitive, natural way of moving an object by one pixel (or skewing it, or mirroring it), we have to learn that command, and memorize it. The user interface doesn’t tell you how to nudge an object by a pixel; in fact, merely from looking at the application, you wouldn’t figure out that this feature even exists.
When natural user interfaces resort to non-obvious gestures, they essentially regress into a really pretty, modern version of the quaint old command line interface.
I was shown the media’s future 16 years ago: now with the iPad, it’s here – The Observer
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I was shown the media’s future 16 years ago: now with the iPad, it’s here – The Observer
Alan Rusbridger on iPad and future of news:
"In the space of four days my sense of scale has changed. On Tuesday, my new iPad seemed like a rather overblown iPhone. By Friday, I found myself irritated at trying to read emails or type on the iPhone, which already seemed mean and cramped. A tabloid newspaper page seemed exotically large, a broadsheet like a street hoarding. The iPad just seemed natural. Maybe Apple has simply rediscovered what book publishers, over the space of 400 years, came to a more or less settled view on – the right shape of page for what the human eye and hands feel easy with.
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Has the Guardian (or the Observer, for we share the same digital space) ever looked more beautiful? [...] The NYT browser version doesn't look bad, either. The BBC, as ever, is irritatingly good
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Will it catch on? It feels like a transformative interim step [...]
Will it transform newspaper finances? [...] only if you switched off the printing presses."
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Google’s Schmidt: ‘We Have A Business Model Problem, Not A News Problem’ – paidContent @ ASNE
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Google’s Schmidt: ‘We Have A Business Model Problem, Not A News Problem’ – paidContent @ ASNE
Eric Schmidt on future of news at ASNE:
"“When I go to a news site, I want that news site to know more about me, what I care about. I don’t want to be treated as a stranger.” To avoid what we used to call “daily me” where all you see is what you want and ask for, though, in Schmidt’s ideal news world, the site offers him options he might not like. “I want you to challenge me. Here’s something new; here’s something you didn’t know; here’s an opposing view.” Two thirds will ignore the option; he wants to reach the third that won’t. This has particular resonance if you think about the way Google has been using actions to predict behavior or to deliver information with Google Buzz, ad targeting in GMail and other areas."
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Your guide to the BBC News iPad application – BBC News
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Your guide to the BBC News iPad application – BBC News
“The BBC Trust is reviewing the BBC smartphone apps in the UK – does this affect the US iPad app?
The BBC Trust has announced a review of the BBC’s plans to deliver content via dedicated smartphone apps. The BBC will therefore not be launching public service news and sports apps for smartphones in the UK pending the outcome of the Trust review.
However, the US iPad app is a commercial activity outside the UK and is not covered by the Trust review. It has been released in the Apple store in the US by BBC Worldwide, the main commercial arm and wholly owned subsidiary of the BBC. BBC Worldwide’s mission is to create, acquire, develop and exploit media content and brands around the world in order to maximise the value of BBC’s assets for the benefit of the UK licence fee payer.”
via: http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-bbc-ipad-app-popular-in-u.s.-but-brits-may-be-denied/
I’ll stop Google taking our news for nothing, says defiant Rupert Murdoch – guardian.co.uk
- I’ll stop Google taking our news for nothing, says defiant Rupert Murdoch – guardian.co.uk
Rupert Murdoch on Apple’s iPad and the future of newspapers:
“I got a glimpse of the future last weekend with the Apple iPad. It is a wonderful thing,” he said. “If you have less newspapers and more of these… it may well be the saving of the newspaper industry.”
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Introducing the Guardian Eyewitness app for iPad – guardian.co.uk
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Introducing the Guardian Eyewitness app for iPad – guardian.co.uk
"Our intention is to mark the launch of a highly tactile, visual device with a product that delivers a photographic feast, featuring the world's most distinctive visual content, as curated by our award-winning photographic team.
The Eyewitness series was launched in print at the time of the Guardian's switch to the Berliner format in 2005, and consists of a daily full-colour, double-page spread devoted to the most compelling news photography. The decision to dedicate so much space to a single picture was a revolutionary move for a newspaper.
Roger Tooth, describes the philosophy behind the series as one that is devoted entirely to showcasing the world's best photos in superb detail: "We want to hold your attention for more than two seconds … we want you to appreciate the work that the photographer has put into the image," he says. "We've been waiting for a chance to replicate the scale and impact of the newspaper's Eyewitness spread series on the web – and I think this is it.""
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iPad apps: news and magazines – Engadget
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iPad apps: news and magazines – Engadget
"Apple's done a pretty good job convincing the old media that the iPad will save their industry, so we've taken our time trying out the launch titles in the App Store — it's plain to see that different publishers have radically different ideas about how you're supposed to buy and consume their content, and everything from pricing to UI is currently up in the air. But while the apps we've seen so far are definitely intriguing, we haven't seen any silver bullets yet — and to be perfectly honest, in several cases we wondered why an app was preferable to an iPad-optimized web site, or even (gasp) a paper subscription. Let's run down the launch lineup, shall we?"
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