AP rolls out newspaper-centric mobile product
Don Day May 11th, 2008
The Associated Press hit the street with its latest venture: AP Mobile News Network. The site - easily accessible from a smartphone at APNews.com - features a slick iPhone interface with news, sports, entertainment, photos and even video.
But remember when the AP rolled out “The Wire” - the national news site that’s largely been eliminated now? You got a cool map of the country, and every market you clicked on gave you a newspaper choice. Ditto this product. When I customized several cities - all I could find were newspaper content providers. E&P reports that 100 news orginizations are on board - but Forbes says “100 papers” are part of the service - leading me to believe no TV or radio outlets are in the mix. Beyond the provider list is something even more basic: The default thumbnail for a story with no photo… is the image of a newspaper.
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1. Ron McEarchern | May 12th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
It’s interesting that at 6PM EST on May 12th, the APnews.com site is showing as its top story a 12 hour old article on the Chinese earthquakes. It’s out of date and missing all the essential facts released during the day.
It looks pretty but if this is a sample of the content, then you have to wonder. I know they are trying to focus on newspaper style stories, and many papers are going local and hyper-local, but this is a major story, so it’s odd to see it so out of date.
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