Thursday, April 15, 2010

The Next New Thing

Its pretty hard to suggest a new media tool because there is already so many out there. I would design a tool that delivers news. It would be like a digital newspaper delivered daily. On a usb port or memory card that could connect to portable devices. I think this would be a good tool because it would be away reinvent the newspaper. People can get a subscription and just attach it to their phones, i pod or whatever other mobile device they are using. Keeping up with the news would become much easier.

4 comments:

  1. Great Idea ;] I would love to have my favorite newspapers on my bbm so i could read them quickly on the train to work, school etc. Even thou i can go online now, it would be much easier to just have a paper icon and read news every morning :)

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  2. Sounds great. The only bottleneck i can think of is the compatibility it has with other devices. the problem these days is everyone wants you as a customer and make sure their devices will be the only thing that can support whatever product. e.g. apple and their podcasts.

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  3. I think this is likely to become the next new thing as many of the major newspapers have already begun implementing similar things. For example, I know the New York Times has an app for the iPhone already. Also, with more and more people trading in traditional books for kindles, its a feasible idea as it is in line with consumer preferences. However, to make it more successful-- I think it'd be great if they could somehow make it so that these updates would automatically download onto your device, such as a blackberry or iphone, so that you don't need internet access / service to read it. I know that sometimes I'd love to read on the train but by the time I think of it, we're underground and there's no service so I cant access the information.

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  4. I like this idea, but I would want to add to it that I would want to get some more of the complete newspaper experience. I took a class last semester where we had to bring the newspaper into every class, and even though I had read it on line before class, there was always at least double the amount of content I wanted to read when I had the paper in my hands. I don't hear a lot of people talk about that, and that should really be what is saving the newspaper industry, but it doesn't seem to matter. Until that class, I didn't know what I was missing.

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