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'Firefox OS': Mozilla's open mobile project based on HTML5

AllThingsD :: The Mozilla open mobile project “Boot to Gecko” now has the official name Firefox OS. It has won the support of a crew of global carriers, with the first Firefox OS phones set to launch early next year in Brazil, through Telefónica’s Vivo. Firefox OS is to be an open mobile platform where every app and function is based on HTML5, with none of the so-called “native apps” specific to a particular operating system.

A report by Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

Publishers’ greatest challenges in digital

Digiday :: A couple of weeks ago, Digiday asked several publishers, “Should publishers be investing their future in apps or the in-browser experience, like HTML 5?” The responses varied and the conversation surrounding the answers was entertaining and informative. This week, we wanted to bring the discussion up a level and find out some of the hurdles publishers constantly leap or trip over in digital. Yes, there are many. But having insights from some of the industry’s leading players can help frame the issues at hand into, perhaps, a manageable outcome.

What is the biggest challenge publishers face in the digital age?

Continue to read Josh Sternberg, www.digiday.com

FT’s Rob Grimshaw: Digital subs will soon beat print circulation

paidContent :: The FT has 285,000 digital subscribers and a 305,685 average daily circulation (ABC, April 2012). It looks like the paper could reach the cross-over early in 2013. FT.com managing director Rob Grimshaw talked to me about the end of print, HTML5, Windows 8 and social sharing in this short video on the fringes of last week’s paidContent 2012 conference

Watch the interview here  Robert Andrews, paidcontent.org

Netizine ‘turns magazines into social networks’ #GEN2012

Journalism.co.uk :: Netizine, a new HTML5-based service that aims to “connect” magazine readers – allowing them to share, recommend and comment on what they’re reading with like-minded people – has been showcased at the News World Summit in Paris.

A report by Paul McNally, blogs.journalism.co.uk

Rob Grimshaw, Financial Times: We're doing quite nicely without Apple

Beet.TV :: The Financial Times has created its own (web) App based on HTML5 and it is better than the earlier "native" App created for the Apple iOS, says Rob Grimshaw, Managing Director of the FT.com in this interview with Beet.TV. With 2 million downloads of the new App, acquisition of new subscribers has been easier outside the Apple App store than within it, he ads.

Watch the interview here Andy Plesser, www.beet.tv

HTML5 is a newspaper’s best friend – even if it has a mobile app

paidContent :: At a panel at the paidContent 2012 conference, digital publishers challenged the mythos that native apps provide a superior mobile experience than HTML5. “We’re not building a video game here,” Moriarty said. “It’s news, photos and text.”

Continue to read Kevin Fitchard, paidcontent.org

Web journey complete: Financial Times switching off iOS app

paidContent :: The Financial Times is preparing to kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, signalling its final conversion from executable-app to web-app (HTML5) publishing.

Reported by - Continue to read Robert Andrews, paidcontent.org

Financial Times passes 2m users for its HTML5 web app

Guardian :: The Financial Times has attracted more than 2m users to its HTML5 web-app, 10 months after its launch. The app was launched in June 2011 in response to Apple's introduction of new rules governing subscription-based iOS apps.

Details - Continue to read Stuart Dredge, www.guardian.co.uk

Web apps: Loku thinks Web first in crafting mobile strategy

GigaOM :: In most cases, mobile developers are focusing on native apps, hitting iOS and Android before looking at the mobile Web. But Loku, a local discovery service, will flip the conventional wisdom on its head with plans to launch a mobile Web app before it tackles native apps. The company, based in San Francisco and Austin, is releasing its first HTML5 mobile app Tuesday since launching a Web site last fall. 

Continue to read Ryan Kim, gigaom.com

The New York Times joins Mozilla and Knight Foundation to drive open innovation in news

The Mozilla Blog :: The New York Times and three other leading global news organizations are joining “Knight-Mozilla OpenNews,” a partnership aimed at driving open source innovation in news. The announcement will be made at SXSW on Saturday, alongside a series of exhibits showcasing how Mozilla and other open source projects are leading innovation in news, in areas like real-time visualizations, augmented video, data-journalism and HTML5 web tools.

Continue to read blog.mozilla.com