links for 2010-01-13

"The Guardian App has been downloaded from the App Store almost 70,000 times since its launch last month. The app is also now available in most European countries, as well as Australia, Canada and the US, having initially launched in the UK, Ireland and US."

Belatedly learning the lesson, I note that 'comments' are closed on this 'story'.

"Is there a way to charge news users for that regular functionality and content upgrading of news software? With newspapers searching for a paidcontent solution, this could be part of it. New blogs, new crowd-sourcing techniques, real-times news feeds, audio/video content, geo-specific news centred on readers’ locations, augmented reality…. none of this stuff is easy or free to do".

Interesting round-up of 14 news apps from a mainly US perspective (prices quoted in dollars for a start). The Guardian's comes out well, but there is a lot of play in this space at the moment.

"'BBC on blogs" is shorthand for 'Conversations about BBC online, BBC iPlayer, the BBC's digital services and the technology that underpins them, including blogs, message boards and articles where you can comment'. If you can think of a better shorthand let me know". In the course of this blogpost about a new Twitter account, the editors spell out their linking policy, which makes for an interesting read

"Clickframes is an open source software requirements tool which takes an XML notation as a source and generates a clickable document. First the requirements are written in the form of an appspec, are then fed into an interpreting tool (such as the hosted CLIPr), which in turn generates interactive documentation". Looks fascinating, but I'm intimidated by the learning curve vs the approaching deadline...

Months of committee meetings to discuss scalable A-B testing system circumvented by JFDI from the client-side developers.