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Palo Alto Online and West Seattle Herald are joining the “mobile app revolution” with their own apps for the iPhone and Android, powered by YAPPER. Both apps feature latest news (with push notifications), photos and videos, while at the same time working as community engagement and social media tools. The last mentioned part is especially interesting, as these apps allow users to submit geo-aware information, stories, photos and videos to the news organization. And once approved, these user-generated story may appear on the news site, in the app as well as on YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, 360News and CNNireport sites with credit going to the user! That’s something we don’t see in “regular” news apps. Usually, there’s just the news with the ability to share stories with friends. With these two apps, you can BE the story. Love it! As I mentioned at the beginning, both Palo Alto Online and West Seattle Herald mobile apps are powered by YAPPER, which is a web-based service that allows anyone to create their apps without a single line of code. You can check how it works from here. Palo Alto (FREE) [iTunes link] West Seattle Herald (FREE) [iTunes link] (And if you own an Android smartphone, you’ll have to search for both apps manually in the Android Market) Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis. Read More

By Nigel Wood, UKfor www.touchgen.com Published: March 4, 2010 Comment         That’s right, we now have our very own App. Get quick access to the latest stories, podcasts and video from Touchgen.com in an easy to read, iPhone friendly format. You asked and so we delivered. While the regular site obviously looks great on the iPhone, it does require a bit of loading and a lot of scrolling, pinching and zooming. So, with this App we have created three tabs that let you browse the top 10 stories, podcasts and video. The podcasts and videos link directly to the files for viewing over EDGE, 3G and WiFi, while the reviews, features and news stories are reformatted for easy reading with no zooming needed. You can even read offline should lose your signal, as the last stories loaded are cached to the App. It’s pretty basic right now, but we hope to improve it over time… so if you have any ideas how to make it better, let us know in the comments section below. TouchGen is available now on the AppStore for free. Remember to follow us on Twitter @TouchGEN Review disclosure: Any games reviewed on this page may have been provided to us by the developer for the purposes of this review. Note: the resulting review score is never impeded by this fact, all opinions are that of the TouchGen reviewer and not the developer. This is in keeping with our O.A.T.S oath. Read more about O.A.T.S here Read More