Tag Archives: iPad
iPad platform : defining new spaces for understanding
Books won’t be books if the imagination doesn’t draw the images. However this new platform – iOS is the start of something different. It is a blending of ways in which we experience meaning. The interactive aspects have to be more than bells and whistles and expand understanding. This is a tool that can help [...]
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wow! flipboard : aggregation with social context
Downloaded Flipboard app for our brandy new iPad. Both the iPad and Flipboard are pretty sweet. First time at Flipboard you load your content zones; each with a particular category. Taxonomy is a real driver in this magazine. The second big driver is your social network. Unfortunately the interest in this app was underestimated by [...]
ABCnews and the iPad.
ABCnews pulled out all the heavies to help promote their new iPad app. Using a sphere-like photo interface that a viewer can spin to see more — a pretty good hook. It’s one of the most powerful marketing efforts for mainstream media to date. Special app content, access to the abc archives, and saving stories [...]
design makes the difference: iPhone 4 and iPad
Stephen Fry gets what good design is all about – ease of use, need, promise, and differentiation in the marketplace. There were mp3 players before the iPod. There were smartphones before the iPhone. There were tablet pc’s before the iPad. But an overwhelming number of people buy Apple products. They buy them because Apple delivers [...]
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iPhone, iPad, and the purchse of Siri
If you think the iPad is a new idea think again. Apple created a concept video demonstrating a future device in 1987. That’s right 1987, the Knowledge Navigator. Now that Apple has aquired Siri that vision is much closer to reality and Apple may be able to deliver on a promise 23 years in the [...]
Penguin Books demos iPad “books”
The definition of the book itself is up for grabs. We don’t know understand at the moment what the consumer is prepared to pay for […] We will only find answers to these questions by trial and error. – John Makinson Now we begin to see who in the publishing industry can be creative. The [...]
Wired Magazine publishing on a new platform. iPad ready?
I posted a video about how Sports Illustrated was imagining the use of the iPad platform and it was pretty interesting considering that it really addressed content. It wasn’t eye-candy. This video is being shared all over the place as the next coming. Not all that imaginative. These are all pretty simplistic ways of adding [...]
Publications granted new life with iPad
It doesn’t take much imagination to get the difference having a good tablet device will make to media providers/publishers. It actually may awaken the publishing industry to the requirement to provide context and new meaning to the stories they publish. We can google anything we want to on the web, but it is raw data. [...]
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message clarity, Apple does it so well.