Category: new media

Microsoft Creates The Future of Newspapers

Are you into a strange topic? Maybe you’re an airline millage junkie, or a model car collector, or you really care about all the latest sports news of Belgium. Whatever you like, Microsoft Fuse’s fantastic Montage web app allows you to read about your passion. Basically, for the grand price of free you can enter the most obscure topic and it will create a...

Snackr- I’m Loving It

Snakr Screen What was your 25 billion app attempt? Mine was Snackr (Free) which is a lovely little App which aggregates news, and gives you quick audio TTS(Text To Speech) blurbs from articles.  The Text to speech sounds great compared to many, and is completely understandable. The english voice of “Alfred” never gets old and I love the little audio wave display. The news selection is...

Hulu Reinvents/Photocopies TV

TV has been forever changed by the internet. We all know that. Until recently, sites like Hulu were only aggregators of television content, and not actual producers, but now that has changed. Hulu has begun producing full length television shows available exclusively on Hulu.com. Today I watched the pilot of one of those show titled “BattleGround” which is basically a photocopy of The Office with a...