by Ted Mann
Introducing the InJersey iPhone App
January 25, 2010 in Mobile by Ted Mann
In honor of what's coming to be know as iTablet week -- or is it iSlate? -- we wanted to make our own little offering to the Apple Gods. The InJersey iPhone app is simplified little interface you can use to browse through the latest updates on InJersey, or your town. It isn't the first self-described "hyperlocal" app -- I counted four others, not to mention related apps like SeeClickFix and Fwix -- and I'm sure it won't be the last.
You can't yet publish using the app, though that's something we'd like to build into it in the not-so-distant future. For now, though, you can download the WordPress 2 app and add your InJersey site of choice, and you'll be able to publish on the go using that.
Very cool! If I had an iPhone, I would certainly get the InJersey app. Perhaps Verizon will get the iPhone by the time my contact’s up in March?!
Word on the street is that Verizon may get it as soon as tomorrow!
Got it! Very cool!
Got it, but why does it list who wrote what blog entry but not the actual headline or news item? Is there a preference I can fix that. I don’t need to see 40 bylines, I want to see the news items!! Thanks TM. Yeh, I’m back, and already complaining. What did you expect!!
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That’s just on the first “Activity” tab — which is sort of like the sitewide news feed. If you go to an individual town, you should see the headlines. Unfortunately, I could only fit a couple towns on the bottom, so to see Flemington and some of the others, you have to click on the “More” button. It’s obviously not a very sophisticated app, but seeing as I’m not an iPhone app developer and did this all on my lonesome, it was the best I could do for a first try.