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TIPR is a free press release news service and can be found at:
http://www.tipmynews.com/iphone

Here is some info on the technology
Two Peas Consulting, LLC is releasing our second application for the Apple iPhone and it’s called TIPR, TIP iPhone Press Releases. TIPR is a real-time news feed with a twist. TIPR offers a content partnership between PR Newswire (United Media), the World’s premier press release service and Two Peas Consulting, LLC., (TPC).

We believe TIPR is one of the most powerful ways to read news/PR on the planet because TIPR has a built in contextual search using TPC’s patent pending TIP technology, Total Information Pages.

By default using TIP, every word within a news story offered in TIPR links to a Google search. Additionally, a TIPR reader can enter ANY Internet domain into a “My Search Source” field and the text within the news story will now search that Internet domain.

For example, if the TIPR reader was browsing news about a medical company they own stock in and entered WebMD.com within the “My Search Source”, every word within the news article will now search WebMD.com. The user is very quickly able to change the context of their search by entering another Internet domain (e.g. forbes.com or finance.yahoo.com) and quickly drill into these sites for instances of a word within the article, including stock symbols. Anything within the article is searchable.

Another example; if the TIPR reader was reading articles about Madonna, they are able to quickly search ANY word in the story within an Internet domain that deals in Hollywood news. (e.g. accesshollywood.com or usmagazine.com)

Didn’t a hyper local site try and fail in the DC area already? I think it was called backfence.

Thanks … yes, I’m on to Everyblock. I’ve actually contacted Adrian Holovaty to see if they’re coming to my neck of the woods (Northern VA/Wash DC metro region). Everyblock is on the leading edge … time will tell if it can gain traction in the handful of markets it’s in, and then replicate in more markets.

I think traditional media is really missing the boat on this. Take radio or a newspaper, which aims to please a local demographic … if a big newstalk radio station figured out how to build a hyper local website that tapped existing news sources, added citizen journalism … and what the heck, an Idea Portal that built a local ‘make our town better’ community of Solvers (think MyStarbucksIdea.com for a town/city) … then Shazaam!

Any traditional media groups interested, ping me.

http://www.everyblock.com

Local news can mean many things. It’s usually too late, too boring, and too reliant on a scattered and downsized news staff to be useful or compelling to read. I’m in search of hyper local content - truly localized information like timely crime reports for example - delivered to my mobile device. Right now, via my local government website police page or the local community paper website, I can find out about a bank robbery in town, two days after it takes place. How useful.

Community newspapers are at a snail’s pace in figuring out the news gathering system they have in place can be retooled (with the addition of UGC from citizens) to provide real-time, hyper local news, deliverable to the platform/device of your choice.

And sometimes you have to have a thicker phone to you know type with “buttons” so you don’t have to stare at your phone like a monkey. And also the 5 megapixel camera/GPS etc etc mean the N95 needs to be a little thicker.

Oh and mostly I don’t care about a “Thick phone” because Im not a girl or metrosexual.

The title says “AP launches iPhone-targeted news service”

And don’t brag about your N95, this device is thick as a brick.