Bit.ly’s social news iPad app, Just launched today and is live for free download at the iTunes store.
The name of the app and matching site is News.me
The app and the site are already getting press as yesterday, All Things Digital, covered the App pointing out that:
News.me will cost $0.99 a week, or $34.99 a year.
It will be available as an iPad app, using Apple’s subscription service, or as an e-mail newsletter.
“News.me will provide users with curated Twitter streams that highlight “the most popular or interesting news stories” that appear in their own Twitter feeds, and from the feeds of other Twitter users they select. ”
“The notion is that users can “read over the shoulder” of people they find interesting. ”
Allthingsdigital goes on to report some of the big boys have already lined up to have their content displayed by News.Me including the New York Times, the Associated Press, Forbes, AOL Business Insider, Gigaom, Mashable, VentureBeat.
Nice to see yet another .Me in the news.
And the recent reported .me sales catched all of them quite respectable prices.
Well done. It has been pretty in the news today: http://thatis.me/~LCMU2
MyNews.Me anyone?
in principle, this seems like a solid idea.
eric schmidt once said, after years of observing the 100’s of millions of google users, “people want to be told what to do.”
there are leaders, and there are followers. lots of followers. 🙂
it follows that users want to be told what to read.
but as it stands, users have to expend effort, following blind shortened url’s that could bounce them anywhere.
push the copy to them instead.
the popularity of rss is evidence many users like to be spoon fed. push.
the “email newsletter” option is smart. if they offered this for “free” it might reach an even larger audience.
the fastest growing company in the history of the us market, with an alleged 15bln valuation, has a business model that basically consists of emailing coupons. opt-in email lists. treading that fine line between spam and not-spam. a revolutionary concept indeed.
email. it’s the one thing every internet user knows how to use.
build an email list and you have a business. hotmail, gmail, facebook, groupon…
email lists.
know thy customer.
buy.me, I like your domain
make an news App that can be used only with an iPad is a nonsense
since the iPad covers only 1.18% of the US web traffic