Filed under: Cool tools, iPhone, iPod touch
TapLynx - Create iPhone focused newsreader applications without programming
Users of NewsGator's NetNewsWire iPhone news reader have been waiting with bated breath for the next iteration of the application, with the promise of the ability to mark news items unread and send articles to InstaPaper Instapaper, amongst other enhancements. As time has gone on, it became clear that Brent Simmons was working on other projects that are related to (but most decidedly not) the next iteration of NetNewsWire for the iPhone.
So what has been keeping him busy? As it turns out, NewsGator is rolling out an entire iPhone framework called TapLynx, which will allow its users to create content-rich topic-focused newsreader applications. The first such application, the All Things Digital iPhone app, was created by Simmons himself.
The goal of TapLynx is to offer users a framework that allows them to simply choose some images, set URLs for content feeds, and generate a media application for the iPhone without requiring any programming.
TapLynx is currently not even yet in beta, but you can sign up to get an alpha invitation on the TapLynx site.
By the way, for the NetNewsWire iPhone fans out there, it turns out that the next iteration of the app will be based on TapLynx, so even though it doesn't seem like there has been much recent movement, things are still progressing. We may even see the ability for NetNewsWire (both the Mac and iPhone versions) to synchronize with Google Reader accounts.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike said 9:59PM on 6-23-2009
Very creepy timing, I had just opened NetNewsWire on my iPhone and was wondering if there was an update in the works, perhaps with Push?
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John Gettler said 10:05PM on 6-23-2009
The best news reader that already fully integrates with Google Reader is Feeds. Awesome.
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Grant said 9:41AM on 6-24-2009
Feeds has always been buggy as hell for me. Unread counts are wrong very very often and often a couple of syncs are required to fix anything, though sometimes even that doesn't work. It's been all about Byline for me.
K said 10:58PM on 6-23-2009
Push feeds would be awesome.
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Grammar Police said 2:46AM on 6-24-2009
It’s Instapaper, not InstaPaper.
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Jason Clarke said 12:49PM on 6-24-2009
Thanks
Doug Clinton said 9:57AM on 6-24-2009
Great. All we want is a couple of simple features in NNW but NewsGator have decided to go off an build a whole framework for news reader apps.
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