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Yup, News Corp’s The Daily was the antithesis of what “digital magazines” should be
I wasn’t at all surprised to read on Monday that News Corp’s The Daily was shutting down. The thing was doomed from the beginning. Digital or tablet “magazines” were never meant to be daily updated sources of news. That isn’t a problem we needed fixed. We have things like CNN, The New York Times, Google…
Read MoreLeave it to comedians to show us the future of digital publishing
The transition of magazines and newspapers into the tablet world has been interesting to watch. Newspapers have made the change more easily as their content is more conducive to a direct replication into tablet form. But magazines have had a much tougher struggle. Most magazines are simply trying to repurpose their monthly content onto a tablet without…
Read MoreMy thoughts on the Facebook Camera app vs Instagram
PRWeek ran this article I wrote last week, but if you missed it… Facebook has been making loads of press lately – with the billion-dollar purchase of Instagram and an IPO that many are calling a failure. (NASDAQ is widely expected to start compensating brokers). Amid all this chaos, the company released Facebook Camera. Wait,…
Read MoreTwo iPhone apps I’m digging
There are two iPhone apps on my second screen (my test screen) that I played with over the weekend – Highlight and CardMunch. Highlight has been getting a lot of buzz over the past week, touted as SXSW’s “Breakout Star”. I wasn’t able to attend SXSW, but I heard a lot of people were loving…
Read MoreVerizon, you complete me
Some of you know the saga I went through with cell phone carriers lately. The long and short is, I used to be on AT&T and in Atlanta the service is very poor and at a certain point I just couldn’t take it anymore. So I researched and saw that Sprint had very good reviews…
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