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What I find incredible is the number of Mobile and Wireless Vendors, yes even Verizon Wireless, don’t have a mobile friendly website.
Full Disclosure, I have a product that mobilizes websites at a fraction of the cost for any device.
Ok, with th...
Seems to me there should be. I am just going to concentrate on sharing my application once done with memebers of my networks and my subscribers.If it goes well enough to bring attention then who knows what's next?
Hi Rajesh,
I am interested to know about the mobile publisher platform you mentioned. My company publishes a list of luxury titles in Singapore and Asian and we are launching a web portal for one of our magazine. I am also looking into taking the...
Tom,
Wanted to check if you are still looking for options to create an iPhone app for your publication. We are developing a mobile publisher platform which will enable publishers get their content to multiple smart-phone platforms with the first ...
Tom,
We released an iPhone app for Website Magazine about 2 months ago. Also an app for the Android platform.
http://www.websitemagazine.com/iphone
http://www.websitemagazine.com/android
The feedback has been very good. Our team here did the devel...
Mickey - the texterity edition on the iphone is not bad, I say not bad and thats quite a compliment - I'm not a fan of texterity (or other digital editions) as I think it's non-intuitive to zoom in/out using a web browser on my PC.
That being sai...
I use Texterity to display the current issue of our magazine and for archived issues. They don't have an app, but they display in a readable format in Safari on the iPhone.
Here is the link to it for Safari on the iPhone: http://www.greathealth-d...
We didn't create an app (yet) but we did create an iPhone specific version of our web site with a design / architecture specific to the iPhone's size and capabilities. Try before you fly, I guess.
Here's our blog post about it - http://www.dripbo...
Share comments, questions and information on prepress systems, tools and problems. This group created by AAAS/Science Director, David Tompkins, covers everything related to prepress from photography and layout through prepress automation.
We have a corporate-wide DAM system similar to what Oleg describes that works with our CMS. It's definitely worth the six figures we spent on it. However, our editorial system is still such that there isn't anything to tie into the DAM--we're stil...
We switched from a 70# Opus to a 70# Somerset last year, and saved about $10,000/yr. We're restricted in going much further because of the need to maintain high standards of photo reproduction. As a result, we've had to slightly reduce our page co...
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- At 1:26pm on January 21, 2009,
OlegR said… - Hey Tom,
Thanks for your answer - what kind of publishing do you do?
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