social video
LumaFusion on iOS: such an easy way to create social videos
LumaFusion on iPad makes knocking up quick and easy social videos a doddle.
analytics
The stealth success of Apple News
I woke to unexpectedly happy news this morning – one of my (meagre) blog posts from last week had killed it on traffic: That’s a normal week’s worth of traffic on a single post. Not bad. And I was completely unaware until that point. Why? Because all the traffic
iPad
Using an iPad to prepare photos for the web
Using an iPad to prepare photos for the web [http://www.imore.com/why-i-prefer-ipad-pro-my-mac-importing-and-editing-photos] This article has me rethinking one of my core reasons for not using my iPad for more blogging: > I’ve pretty much stopped importing and editing images on my Mac. Though I didn’t expect
iPad
Publishers and iPads: half a decade on
My predictions for the relationship between magazine publishers and iPads five years ago [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2010/02/the_obligatory_ipad_for_publishers_post.html] : > * Companies will seize on the magazine-like form factor and the “book replication” iBooks interface to build what are, in effect, straight replications
apple
The baffling stall of tablet magazine evolution
Interesting piece from a couple of months ago, on the faltering pace of change in tablet magazines [http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/09/why-your-tablet-magazine-isnt-getting-any-better/] . It makes a good case for what’s gone wrong – and an even more compelling one for some missed opportunities: > A successful tablet magazine
exeter
Flickr arrives on the iPad - finally
Few apps have deserved the response “at last” more than the Flickr iPad app [http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/10/17/announcing-flickr-for-ipad/]. The fact that it has taken over four years for this to surface is a sign of just how much Yahoo has dropped the ball with the
amazon
The publishing winner on iPads - comics - are under threat from Amazon
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/comixology-new-app-3708.html] It’s interesting to note that one type of publication was hugely assisted by the arrival of the iPad: comics. > Very few people bought comic books digitally before the iPad (probably more stole them). Remember how the iPad
digital editions
iPad Magazines: a whole new generation of shovelware
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/the-loop-ipad-3685.html] While we’re on the topic of iPad magazine apps [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2014/04/ipad-magazines-a-predictable-publisher-r.html] : > We in the publishing game have a name for this phenomenon – we call it “shovelware”. We used to use
iPad
iPad Magazines: a predictable publisher road-crash
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/04/newsstand-again-3682.html] David Jacobs of 29th Street Publishing [http://www.29.io] talking about magazine apps: > What we have learned is that the replica will never be successful. Consumers have soundly rejected them: digital subscriptions make up only 3% of
adobe DPS
Magazines on tablets: publishers' painful lessons
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/11/adobe-digital-publishing-summit.jpg] This year was meant to be the year where I was deep in the production of tablet editions of various B2B mags. Life didn’t work out that way, but when I was offered the chance to
elections
Saturday morning coffee reading - 25th August 2012
Five things that are worth reading over your morning coffee… * The shop window is the only place to be in the digital high street [http://whatsheonaboutnow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-shop-window-is-only-place-to-be-in.html] – a nice summation of the problems with Apple’s Newsstand, based on David Hepworth’s experience with
feeds
Building my own iPad magazine every morning
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2012/08/in-my-pocket-ipad-2720.html] In 2001, when I first became aware of blogging and RSS feeds, I used to speculate about magazines of the future, built of feeds which allowed you to select the reporters, reviewers and commenters that mattered to you. In