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Lon Seidman
Local video news on your phone? There will be an app for that!
All of our videos have been iPhone ready from the start. Simply navigate to LocalOnlineNews.tv from your iPhone's browser and video plays just like it does on a desktop. As nice as this solution worked, it lacked the simplicity of other mobile websites and applications currently on the platform.
We experimented with a mobile version of our website, podcast feeds, and other mobile strategies but none were as functional as a customized application.
Thankfully the folks at iSites have put together a fantastic platform for building custom iPhone apps that should work seamlessly with our current content distribution infrastructure. The app will aggregate and organize video from all of our properties throughout Connecticut into a very simple to use application. Stories will appear around the same time they're uploaded to the main site.
We built the app this afternoon and are now just waiting on approval from iSites and Apple. Users of Android platform phones (like the Verizon Droid) will soon have an app of their own too.
As with all of our content, the app will be free. We'll let you know just as soon as everything is available.
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by Lon Seidman
