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As an avid iPhone user and Current TV watcher and producer, I think it would be insanely cool if there was a Current TV native app for the iPhone. Something where we could watch videos, write comments, check the TV line up etc.
What you guys think?As an avid iPhone user and Current TV watcher and producer, I think it would be... more
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Since the launch of the iPhone, and the crazy cool App Store, we've been fielding questions like, "Hey, where's the Current.com iPhone app?" and "What's up with Current on the iPhone?"
Well, we're not quite ready for an iPhone app, but we're working on it. In the meantime, you can still use your iPhone to contribute to Current.com by adding a "Make Current" bookmarklet to your Safari bookmarks, and then syncing your bookmarks to your iPhone.
Simple, right? Well, just in case I threw together a quick how-to. Take a gander and get set up to contribute to Current from anywhere your iPhone has signal.
Speaking of Current.com iPhone apps -- what would your ideal app do? Would it be able to shoot video while streaming to Current.com? What about voting and commenting on the latest rising stories in Current:News? Or, would it make coffee and balance your check book?
Tell us your ideas in a response below.
Mario
Online Community TeamSince the launch of the iPhone, and the crazy cool App Store, we've been fielding... more
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A great resourse/tutorial site on making things more iPhone friendly
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1. The ability to post images, video, articles that I find while browsing iPhone's Safari browser and with a click of a button, "Make It Current". It may not be possible to physically add this button to Safari, so the only way I can imagine this being done is opening the current.com app, typing in the URL of the video/article/image and clicking "Make Current". This would be a lot of work to memorize or write down the URL path. (unless a copy/paste feature from Safari to the CDC app happens) Although copy/paste on the iPhone would make A LOT of Apps more useful.
2. The ability to watch all videos that are on current.com. It wouldn't be too difficult to take all of our Pods and export them into a iPhone friendly format, but would be tougher to do for viewer-uploaded clips that are in Flash or from a webcam. If we had the technology to take any clip from CDC and automatically transcode it on the fly for the iPhone would be awesome.
3. As many features from the regular CDC site like checking out the TV schedule, suggesting articles to friends, voting up and down submissions.
4. an interface that is user-friendly for the small iPhone screen. (big text, easy to touch buttons, limited gfx (banners, ads, backgrounds that will take longer to load on 3G and EDGE)
5. using GPS location services, find out what area I'm in and display articles/videos/images that are "Current" in this area. This would be AWESOME. (a feature similar to this on our regular site where the user types in their zip code and has a section of CDC for local news)
6. The ability to bookmark/Favorite CDC content that i like and would like to access in the future without having to search for it
7. Poll of the day! I love polls.
8. Obviously the ability to leave comments would be nice.
9. A mini "best-of" pod for people who don't have time to watch several pods on their phone (maybe while on the bus or on their lunch break) A 5 minute pod that shows highlights from infoMania, supernews, Fix, pods? Update this on a daily/weekly basis.
10. The ability to take a picture with your iPhone and upload it to current.com. (although there should be a reason to upload a photo - don't want CDC to be filled with crappy cell phone pics) Maybe if there was a CDC Group of "Show us your car" or "live from Macworld 2009" (where any first hand photos/experiences would be VERY "Current" and interesting to the current community)
That's my list, how about yours?1. The ability to post images, video, articles that I find while browsing... more
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A year ago, we said that no iPhone SDK meant no killer apps. It came, and the apps are here in staggering numbers. But many of the amazing apps and concepts we grew to love as unofficial apps aren't here, and only about 100 of the 500+ apps at launch in the official store are really useful or desirable—the rest are dupes or just bad. There are no less than five apps to turn my iPhone into a flashlight, yet I can't turn it into a 3G-powered Wi-Fi hotspot. Why? Because the SDK has more restrictions than Guantanamo—devs can't integrate with the OS and have to steer way, way clear of copyright and trademark issues—so the most innovative, game-changing apps might not ever make it to your squeaky clean iPhone. That's why we need more than Apple's official app store—we still need jailbreaking, Installer.app (now Cydia) and the best unauthorized third-party apps to make the iPhone an ultra-powerful open platform we really want. Here are the roadblocks:A year ago, we said that no iPhone SDK meant no killer apps. It came, and the apps are... more
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