All entries tagged: SMS
Knight News Challenge: Building a better toolkit for producing and sharing media on cell phones
Mobile was one of the big themes of this year’s Knight News Challenge; yesterday, we talked about the Kenyan mobile-crowdsourcing grantee Ushahidi. But it wasn’t the only cell-themed winner that promises to make spreading information in the developing world easier.
Katrin Verclas and her group MobileActive won a $200,000 grant to build new and better toolkits [...]
How a CNN user propelled the network into Twitter’s top slot — or why CNN headlines are so short
James Cox just wanted the news on his phone. But the year was 2006, and if you can remember that distant age, getting the latest headlines on your mobile device wasn’t yet trivially easy.
CNN already had a longstanding email news alert that hit inboxes whenever a plane crashed or foreign capital fell. And out in [...]
