The biggest news in technology and magazine publishing last week was certainly the announcement of the iPad. It is so revolutionary that you can't miss it. If you didn't hear about the product last week you must be living under a rock ... or working painstakingly on a design. magCulture.com posted a couple things regarding the iPad (check it out here: http://magculture.com/blog/?p=5490 ).
When the iPhone was released, news organizations all of a sudden had a new platform to disseminate information. Programmers and journalists joined forces to create apps that would gain revenue, share content and so much more. Now that the iPad is here, magazine and newspapers have a new platform that would create a similar viewing experience to the traditional print format.
The journalism school offers a course in iPhone app development, and I am currently taking the course. Teams will be comprised of computer science/information technology students and journalism students. Each team will be assigned a client to develop and create an app for. The instructors are finalizing clients for the course and two of the potential clients are The Columbia Missourian and Vox Magazine.
This class deals with iPhone app development, but the news of the iPad has sparked interest and curiosity of the instructors as well as the students – the iPad has the same interface as the iPhone and the programming for the two is very similar. It is interesting and exciting to see how quickly people get their hands on new technology in order to utilize it to its full extent. What I can't wait to see is how design changes to fit the iPad.
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