Wednesday, December 22, 2010

New web platform for Telegram

Nicole reports that the Telegram, along with the Boston Globe, will be switching web platforms in 2011. For most folks, this will be manifest as new services and more timely publications. For the newspaper production staff, we hope that the situation will not longer be this Red Green-style toolset that mungs the content from one format to another. (A former T-and-G staffer says it's like watching a snake trying to swallow and digest a pig between 4 and 5AM every day.)
Well, good luck to them. Their new web services provider, EidosMedia, has a slick presence and, by their own measure, do a good job of producing content in multiple formats, locations, and languages. It's early, yet, so we'll have to see what's ahead.
In the meantime, however, with the mobile devices an increasingly important channel for news, it would seem that their pages showcasing their mobile offerings would look great on a mobile device, such as Android phone.
Initial view is pretty small on a phone. By rotating the phone and then zooming, the graphics and additional on the right side of the page are clipped and require scrolling.

Good luck to all.

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