Forking happens in software projects when a developer or group of developers takes code that has been developed by one community for one purpose, and then duplicates that code and takes it off in another direction. Forking an operating system or an ‘open source’ software project or application may be perfectly legal and within the spirit of the free software. For example, Google launched Android as a free and open operating system for mobile software development and more or less … Keep Reading
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Exact Editions apps are all searchable. Individual issues can be searched; years, decades and all the available archive can be searched from within the magazine app. We have recently introduced a new search engine and an improved interface for browsing magazine archives and selecting the focus for a search.
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iTunes newsstand has been a remarkable success for the magazine industry, and the success has overturned some standing assumptions.
First, there is a general point which may be of some interest to a broader community of Apple watchers and publishers. Magazine subscriptions through iTunes have worked at much higher prices than would be believed by most outsiders. There is a fairly widespread view that apps have to be very cheap to work in the iOS economy (and perhaps that they … Keep Reading
There has been a noticeable retrenchment in magazine publishers’ expectations of what an app should do. Mashable carries a quotation from David Carey, President of Hearst Media in the US, one of the industry’s biggest hitters:
… Keep ReadingWhen Hearst first launched digital editions for the iPad, it loaded its titles with interactive features — features, Hearst President David Carey said, readers don’t necessarily want.
“We had to find out whether people wanted something all-new and interactive, or if they just wanted
Dick Costolo, the CEO of Twitter, gave an excellent lecture last month at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. His theme was the way Twitter thinks about itself internally and the ways in which Twitter is interacting with and impacting on modern broadcast technologies. It is a clear lecture, wide-ranging and suggestive, with some good jokes (in his early career Costolo was a standup comedian).
Costolo starts with an historical analogy, comparing Twitter to the Greek agora. The agora … Keep Reading