Discovery Communications is deepening its investment in online content with the launch of science and technology new site DiscoveryNews. Discovery is also launching a companion iPhone app, which costs $0.99 on the App Store.
Discovery News was previously a feature within Discovery Channel’s website. The standalone site will which focus on a variety of news relating in the Earth, Space, Tech, Animals, Dinosaurs, Archaeology, Human and History categories. The platform will include breaking news as well as in-depth features on sci-tech topics. The site will also feature regular contributions from HowStuffWorks.com, which Discovery acquired in 2007. Discovery previously acquired environmentally focused blog TreeHugger.com.
A few months ago, Discovery Communications released a Discovery Channel app which includes video content, quizzes, photo galleries, programming schedules and updates from Discovery News.
whats the point of the app? you pay $1 to have a crappier version of their website? lmao
Nice to see Discovery continually embracing and expanding online content.
I used to read Discovery News all the time! But then it sort of dropped off my radar. Perhaps this new, higher-profile push will draw my attention back.
Every “science” programming cable channel Discovery Communications launches ends up filled with Reality TV crap only remotely related to the original science topic within a year of launch.
So I guess we will be able to find out all the latest Survivor gossip on this “Discovery Science News” site fairly quickly, huh?
I’m a Discovery Channel fan…and I’m excited to see them getting more Web 2.0 savvy! Another good site I use to get science and tech news is YourVersion (http://www.yourversion.com), which launched at the TechCrunch50 conference. I’ve specified my top science and tech topics and the site keeps me updated on them throughout the day. I use their iPhone app, too (free on the app store, which is nice).
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