My Blog on widgets

Whilst working with mobile widgets, I've come to the conclusion that there is no single place where anyone can get useful independent information on widgets. So I've create a blog called http://themobilewidget.com/ where you will be able to find out everything you need to know about mobile widgets.

3 Million downloads in 8 months

Since relaunching the EyeMags site in Oct 2009 we seen 3 Million downloads of EyeMag apps and this is volume is growing strongly. In the last month we doubled the number of unique users coming to the mobile site.

Version 2 iPad Magazines

Today, we've just released our V2.0 offering for iPad magazines.

This version works much better with the iPad than V1.0 released at the end of March.













New features include:

• a fixed menu bar at the bottom of the screen.
  
• Content List can now be view
• Easier left/right swiping between pages
• Pictures can now be full screen
• It is now possible to sell the magazines to the public using PayPal.
  

The final payment option is in closed beta with a limited number of publishers. But we see this as a significant step forward into incentivising publishers onto the eyemags platform and make money from their content.


At the same time iPhone EyeMags 2.0 is also released with the same new features.

For both the iPhone and iPad EyeMags use the HTML5 features which allow offline webapps to be created. EyeMags makes it easy for publishers of great content to make it available as apps on thousands of different mobile devices.

A Mutualised Media Offering - describing eyemags.com

Great video of Alan Rusbridger (editor of the UK's Guardian newspaper) talking about the revolution of Mutualised offering of media content.

In the video, he is talking about the Guardian doing these offerings, but here at eyemags.com we see his words as fitting perfectly with what we are doing with eyemags

Eyemags enables anyone to create content application in a perect open environment and here at eyemags we collaborate with the new breed of publishers to enable them to distribute and sell their content to users throughout the world.

Selling of content is new from us and there will be more information on this in the coming weeks

iPad is nearly here

Our iPadMags.com site is getting very popular as the excitement builds to Saturday's release of the iPad. We're ready with eyemags.com to fully support the iPad alongside the thousands of other phones we already support. Now anyone can create magazine content all the way from the 9.7 inch screen of the iPad down to the sub 2 inch screen of many phones.

Announcing support for iPad

Today we're announcing support for the iPad. Now any magazine created will work on the iPad, the iPhone and still work on 1,000s of other phones too. So if you have a magazine, a company brochure, information leaflet on a new festival or conference information and want it on the iPad and just about any phone now, try us.

To mark this new features we've created a special site just for the iPad at iPadMags.com.

And what's more because we do not use iTunes appstore to install the magazine web application there's still time to get your magazine live on the iPad before April 3rd - the US launch date for the iPad.

Go to iPadMags.com and watch the 2 video adverts showing our magazines running on the iPad

Win €100K! Can good content make a better app than rich functionality

Vodafone is running an Application developer competition with prizes totalling €1M and top prize for an individual being €100K. Competition ends on 31st March so hurry.

We wonder whether a developer has to be the winner. If you have great content and you used EyeMags to create the app, could that app be better than something a real developer has produced? I think it is possible. Do you?

Why don't you accept the challenge and show that "Content IS King" and create an outstanding app which could win you €100K.

You have to live in UK, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal or Spain you can enter and each country has access to the €100K prize then go to this url

Note after publishing your app in EyeMags at the bottom of the screen look for the Vodafone logo and then click more details. Then download the widget that has been created and submit it to Vodafone. Please note we have no relationship with Vodafone. We are not promoting their competition -we do not guarantee anything about the W3C widget which is created; it is created as is; but if you win please remember we enabled you to do it for free so please donate 10% of your winnings to us. :-)