I’ve just arrived to my new college in Italy, there was just enough time to unpack, clear my teeth, get my MacBook out of Brenthaven’s case and than it was like a light lighting from clear sky - “You’re in the finals of My Dream App!”.
Whoa! I wasn’t even supposing that Herald’s idea will be so liked by judges!
So, what is Herald?
If you’re reading forums carefully (or you were lucky enough to read about it when it was posted and forgotten by forum users) you should already know. But if you are not familiar with Herald idea for some reason, it’s simply the last news reader you’ll ever need.
It’ll create world’s best newspaper using carefully selected Scrolls (mainly RSS feeds) of world’s best newspapers, websites, comics and its own intelligence.
Because it’ll be using interface similar to Pages and Stationery, creating newspaper will be just simple dragging and dropping Scrolls on right places on beautifully designed pages.
Don’t be afraid, you’ll be able to drop your own articles, PDFs and e-books. And than you’ll go to bed, and in the very morning, your newspaper will be already updated and printed or uploaded to your iPod (or PDA, even cell phone - it’s all about using XHTML!), so you’ll be able to read it eating this sweet croissant, sipping cappuccino or just commuting to school by bus. In case your underground is in Tokyo (so it’s very crowded), you’ll have spoken version of your news, mixed with the music you choose (or top three from iTMS for example!).
Imagine a newspaper with articles from Guardian and NYT, chapter from 1984, just headlines from MacRumors, strips from Garfield, Peanuts and Calvin, weather for Trieste, Warsaw and Singapore on the bottom of first side, your appointments from iCal as a Cultural News and your name in footer.
You will be editor-in-chief, main designer, corrector, censor and selector. And you will do your work in less than five minutes. Between coffee and yogurt.
Herald will be totally new way of using news services. It’ll give you information to your fingertips, real ones.
In this way, it’ll be last news reader you’ll ever need.
And it won’t be a news reader after all.
