There has been some reports of Twitter’s growth slowing in recent months. ReadWrite web reports some HubSpot research which shows Twitter’s growth slowing to merely 3.5% month on month growth in October; down from 12% in March 09. But it all depends what you are measuring. It seems unlikely that the Twitter investors are getting anxious. HubSpot is measuring new users and followers and the really interesting change is that Twitter usage is growing very fast still, but most of … Keep Reading
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The other day I was talking (mostly listening) to someone who works in trade publishing. That is the kind of publishing in which books are ‘sold’ for advances of £25K, or maybe £250K, or very occasionally more than a million smackeroos. This friend/acquaintance was explaining that the house she works for controls very few of the electronic/digital rights in the books they publish and she was frustrated that agents seem highly reluctant to grant any rights, or even to experiment … Keep Reading
The midwinter break seems to be getting longer. But we have been busy improving the Exact Editions App functionality in the last few weeks.
There have been some important changes in the way we view Apps. The first big change is that the Exact Editions App platform now supports full issue sync-ing to the iPhone. The sync-ing is only possible in a WiFi zone and it happens in the background, automatically whilst you are using WiFi. The sync will only … Keep Reading
The Exact Edition app platform now features full sync-ing of a complete magazine issue. We explained this here.
Shall we summarize the key features of the Exact Editions magazine app platform in rough order of importance!
- The Complete Magazine. Each individual magazine app has access to the current issue and the available archive. The complete issue, all of it. Including advertisements. The most recent issue will sync to the reader’s phone (iPod Touch) so enabling off-line reading and faster
Three of the Exact Editions magazine Apps have met with Apples approval and are in the iTunes store in version 2.0. Opera magazine, The Spectator and Athletics Weekly.
The big new thing with these Apps, version 2.0, is that they sync the latest issue of the magazine to your iPhone when you are in a WiFi zone. “Sync-ing” is the preferred term, but one can think of it as a matter of cache-ing or downloading the current issue. For … Keep Reading