May 2012
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Developing Stories: Paperboy
A few weeks ago, we launched a new feature in our iPhone app called Paperboy. Its purpose is simple yet incredibly useful – whenever you leave home, News.me will download the latest news, so it’s ready for you whenever you want to read. Our team is based in New York City, so it’s super helpful for us when we hop on the subway. I wanted to take a few minutes to share the basics of how...
What You Need to Know, Every Morning: The New...
The web is full of great stuff — the problem isn’t finding more, it’s finding less. At News.me we’re focused on providing a news service that delivers you less, but keeps you more informed than ever. That’s why today we’re rolling out our most significant overhaul to the News.me daily email to date.
If you haven’t yet, sign up to get your own News.me Daily...
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Developing Stories: Custom Label iOS Library
Hello out there news fans!
At a recent Brooklyn iOS Dev Meetup, I talked about our use of Core Text in the News.me iPhone app. In building out the app, I created a subclass of UILabel that takes advantage of Core Text for more robust formatting, such as kerning, mixed fonts, & line height. I thought this might be helpful to other developers out there, so we open-sourced it, and it’s now...
You may have missed...
News.me for Email turned 1-year-old last month. What started as a “companion product” has grown into one of the most engaging products we’ve ever worked on. Every morning more than 30% of our users open the email, with another 30% clicking through to read one or more story.
As the News.me user base grows, our data set is starting to look “really interesting,”...
