All aboard the app train.
The Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD.com is the latest Web pub to get its own IPhone/IPod Touch app. The application includes Kara Swisher‘s Boomtown, Peter Kafka‘s MediaMemo blogs and video and Walt Mossberg‘s popular personal technology videos as well as his Mossblog.
The app will also keep users updated on the goings on at next week’s D-7 conference in San Diego.
AllThingsD.com launched in 2007 and is co-edited by Mossberg and Swisher.
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True/Slant is not a news aggregator, but an original news content site. It was founded by a news veteran and is launching with 65 journalists, or “knowledge experts.” The WSJ’s Walt Mossberg wrote his column and produced a video about True/Slant which reveals the “highly unusual” business model including a practice Mossberg says is “verboten” in most newsrooms:
• More: The Industry Standard’s take: “The hype around True/Slant this morning comes entirely from journalists intrigued by True/Slant’s pay-per-pageview scheme, plus its plan to let advertisers have blogs on the site. For those of us who don’t care about these machinations and just want something to read, the site fails to ignite.”
New iPhone owners who see trolling through hundreds and hundreds of applications as a chore rather than an adventure are probably quite happy with all the “Best Of” type lists that cropped up online over the weekend.
One of the lists we like comes from the Wall Street Journal‘s Walt Mossberg, who used his Mossblog column on All Things D to chat about what he considers to be 10 worthy iPhone apps. After downloading and playing with dozens of programs from the Apple App Store over the weekend, Mossberg came up with a list of applications he recommends checking out.
His suggestions include AOL’s new AIM client for the iPhone; MotionX-Poker, a poker game played with dice; the TruPhone Internet calling app; FileMagnet file transfer program; the SpeechCloud Voice Dialer; Pandora radio; Where; Movies, a free movie-finding service; Apple’s own Remote program that lets you control your iTunes music over a wireless network, and MLB.com At Bat, which lets you watch game clips while the game is still in process.
You can read Mossberg’s musings on the applications here.
