Comments on: Knight News Challenge: Building a better toolkit for producing and sharing media on cell phones http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/knight-news-challenge-building-a-better-toolkit-for-producing-and-sharing-media-on-cell-phones/ A collaborative effort to figure out the future of journalism. A project of Harvard University. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:39:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TheBlueDot http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/knight-news-challenge-building-a-better-toolkit-for-producing-and-sharing-media-on-cell-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-91345 TheBlueDot Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:32:40 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=6125#comment-91345 I just do not understand why it is so hard to have a simplified and common standard across cell phones like that of the major operating systems we use (Mac and Windows) or some type of cross compatibility standard like the W3C has with Internet Browsers. While, pictures and messages are standard media types for exchanging between one phone to the next - internet browsing, video watching, and so many other basic functions of a cell phone differ substantially from one brand or model to to next. Any additional thoughts? I just do not understand why it is so hard to have a simplified and common standard across cell phones like that of the major operating systems we use (Mac and Windows) or some type of cross compatibility standard like the W3C has with Internet Browsers. While, pictures and messages are standard media types for exchanging between one phone to the next – internet browsing, video watching, and so many other basic functions of a cell phone differ substantially from one brand or model to to next.

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]]> By: Knight News Challenge announces a (smaller) slate of winners for 2009 » Nieman Journalism Lab http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/knight-news-challenge-building-a-better-toolkit-for-producing-and-sharing-media-on-cell-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-19828 Knight News Challenge announces a (smaller) slate of winners for 2009 » Nieman Journalism Lab Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:16:19 +0000 http://www.niemanlab.org/?p=6125#comment-19828 [...] — Mobile Media Toolkit, $200,000 to MobileActive and Katrin Verclas to build tools to make media creation on cell phones easier. (Read more in my post.) [...] [...] — Mobile Media Toolkit, $200,000 to MobileActive and Katrin Verclas to build tools to make media creation on cell phones easier. (Read more in my post.) [...]

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