4 posts and columns on local news

NPR: All Apps Considered

in News on December 8, 2009 at 7:06 am PT

National Public Radio is ramping up its mobile presence. Following the summer launch of a well-received iPhone App, the broadcaster is rolling out an expanded mobile site and an NPR News app for Android, Google’s mobile OS.
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CNN Invests in Neighborhood News Feed Outside.In

in News on December 8, 2009 at 12:30 am PT

CNN.com is investing in Outside.In, a start-up that feeds neighborhood blogs and other local news and information to the Web sites of newspapers, TV stations and other media. The investment, whose size the Time Warner Inc. Web site declined to disclose, comes as news organizations seek more local information about high school sports, eateries and social events, in which they see an untapped market.

Microsoft Vine: The Zune of Social Networks

in News on April 28, 2009 at 9:09 am PT

Think of it as Facebook for the people you actually know and like, those whose health and safety you’d worry about in a natural disaster. It’s called Microsoft Vine and it’s not so much a social network as it is a “societal” one–or at least, Redmond likes to bill it as such.
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