Comments on: Associated Press iPhone Push http://www.ernmander.com/2009/05/20/associated-press-iphone-push/ I Write What I Like Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:44:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ernmander http://www.ernmander.com/2009/05/20/associated-press-iphone-push/comment-page-1/#comment-762 ernmander Wed, 20 May 2009 20:13:49 +0000 http://www.ernmander.com/?p=262#comment-762 Ahh Steph, I have seen how much effort you put into your online presence and am in awe of what you achieve. Yes can submit stories yourself and attach pictures, just like sending a long Tweet. I think they may check the stories to verify them first, not sure on AP's policy on that one. You can contact them at apmobile@ap.org So far the AP app has ads within it, not sure if the final release will be ad driven or paid for. Ahh Steph, I have seen how much effort you put into your online presence and am in awe of what you achieve.

Yes can submit stories yourself and attach pictures, just like sending a long Tweet. I think they may check the stories to verify them first, not sure on AP's policy on that one. You can contact them at apmobile@ap.org

So far the AP app has ads within it, not sure if the final release will be ad driven or paid for.

]]> By: Steph http://www.ernmander.com/2009/05/20/associated-press-iphone-push/comment-page-1/#comment-760 Steph Wed, 20 May 2009 19:31:05 +0000 http://www.ernmander.com/?p=262#comment-760 You can submit stories yourself? Do they take everything and republish or are they choosey about it? As for revenue, we struggle mightily with revenue online. We're doing good things with Twitter and our live chat, but neither of them make us any money yet. And we haven't worked out how - with Twitter. We've got ideas for the chat. Was the AP app a free one since it's in beta and does it say whether they will charge for it once it's in wide release? You can submit stories yourself? Do they take everything and republish or are they choosey about it?

As for revenue, we struggle mightily with revenue online. We're doing good things with Twitter and our live chat, but neither of them make us any money yet. And we haven't worked out how – with Twitter. We've got ideas for the chat. Was the AP app a free one since it's in beta and does it say whether they will charge for it once it's in wide release?

]]> By: ernmander http://www.ernmander.com/2009/05/20/associated-press-iphone-push/comment-page-1/#comment-757 ernmander Wed, 20 May 2009 17:25:29 +0000 http://www.ernmander.com/?p=262#comment-757 Fabulous points Steph. I did forget to say in the post that you can submit stories to AP via the app which is very cool. My main concern at the end is will we as consumers stop visiting you the newspapers websites? I am concerned because I know the websites are used as a revenue stream with adds etc. Fabulous points Steph. I did forget to say in the post that you can submit stories to AP via the app which is very cool.

My main concern at the end is will we as consumers stop visiting you the newspapers websites? I am concerned because I know the websites are used as a revenue stream with adds etc.

]]> By: Steph http://www.ernmander.com/2009/05/20/associated-press-iphone-push/comment-page-1/#comment-756 Steph Wed, 20 May 2009 17:08:08 +0000 http://www.ernmander.com/?p=262#comment-756 Very good question. The AP, at least the AP I work with, pulls in stories we (the small, local newspaper I work for) send it. The have their own writers and staff, of course, but they tend to focus more on either state-wide (ie. legislature) issues or national ones. Not what happened in the Smalltown, NE city council meeting last night (unless it relates to something state-wide, such as my town's current state fair issue.) That's where the AP relies on us to feed it stories. But if now they're taking those stories we give them and pushing them out in this App (which I bet is something they will develop for other phones as well, not just iPhone/Touches, but Blackberries etc.) You have a valid point. Why bother coming to the newspaper website when I can get local news on my device as they come in. So should small newspapers scramble to find a way to develop an app themselves? It probably isn't viable, because the reach is limited (only a finite number of people are going to want to install a GI Independent app) and we simply do not have the tech available in-house to develop such a thing. Is it now up to us to find some other reason to make out site attractive - other than what we have going for us which is our local content? Do we focus on the community building more than ever with commenting, twitter, facebook, friendfeed etc? These are the things we struggle with all the time. I don't actually think the AP app is going to do us in or anything, but it's an interesting thing to think about. Thanks for the blog on it. Can't wait to try the app myself when 3.0 is available. Very good question. The AP, at least the AP I work with, pulls in stories we (the small, local newspaper I work for) send it. The have their own writers and staff, of course, but they tend to focus more on either state-wide (ie. legislature) issues or national ones. Not what happened in the Smalltown, NE city council meeting last night (unless it relates to something state-wide, such as my town's current state fair issue.) That's where the AP relies on us to feed it stories.

But if now they're taking those stories we give them and pushing them out in this App (which I bet is something they will develop for other phones as well, not just iPhone/Touches, but Blackberries etc.) You have a valid point. Why bother coming to the newspaper website when I can get local news on my device as they come in.

So should small newspapers scramble to find a way to develop an app themselves? It probably isn't viable, because the reach is limited (only a finite number of people are going to want to install a GI Independent app) and we simply do not have the tech available in-house to develop such a thing. Is it now up to us to find some other reason to make out site attractive – other than what we have going for us which is our local content? Do we focus on the community building more than ever with commenting, twitter, facebook, friendfeed etc?

These are the things we struggle with all the time. I don't actually think the AP app is going to do us in or anything, but it's an interesting thing to think about. Thanks for the blog on it. Can't wait to try the app myself when 3.0 is available.

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