Taptu for iPad – with gorgeous illustration

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000

With a spike in visitors to my blog exceeding 1000% of normal activity, the most popular post of all time on this blog is Content – an illustrated history . That obviously excludes the much greater exposure the illustration by Nic Hinton (@karoshikula ) and me will have garnered when Mashable and Wired ran with it, and I’ve since heard that the illustration is being used to teach university students and school kids, and for the purposes of social media training in organisations.

I mentioned in the updates to that post inserted during the ensuing days that Taptu CEO Mitch Lazar had become smitten with the illustration style and had expressed an interest in applying the style at Taptu in future. Well now they’ve done just that.

Today, the next generation of the popular and free social news reader comes out for iPhone and iPad (it’s already rocking and rolling on Android). Taptu calls it the social news DJ – allowing you to mix your favourite news streams. I’ve posted some of the illustrations used in the app here, but there’s nothing quite like checking the app out for yourself and seeing all of them in all their glory… particularly on the larger screen of the iPad. I’ve also posted a video of the new iPad version in action.

I consider an app like Taptu to be an indispensable tool in the PR professional’s armoury. Do you have a favourite social news reader?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkcMi3EuKew

Searching harder - search panel at Being Digital

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Just watched Giles Palmer’s presentation on search trends here at Being Digital . His company, Magpie , is one of those I’m including in my upcoming eBook on Social Web Analytics (pushed back a week or so due to better than expected social life… yes, I have one).

[Simon Grice listens in to Giles Palmers presentation].

Currently Microsoft’s Jeff Kelisky (ex-Multimap CEO) is talking about Microsoft search being an online representation of the real world… 3D search if you like. He’s showing a video of 3D cityscapes, but I can’t see much search going on. Hang on, no, that’s just a virtual Earth 3D demo. Mmmm, looks like Jeff doesn’t know if he’s in search or mapping. Or perhaps both, but as he’s pointed out, we’ve had the panel on location today.

Jeff has also been keen to big up MIcrosoft’s cashback search I posted about recently .

Taptu on Philip Sheldrake

Taptu for iPad – with gorgeous illustration

Searching harder - search panel at Being Digital