App of the week for journalists: Zite
Zite is a must-have app for any journalist with an iPhone
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App of the week:
Operating systems:
Apple: iPhone or iPad
Cost:
Free
What is it and how is it of use to journalists?
If you are feeling overwhelmed by the number of RSS feeds , tweets with links to articles and other social media sources you are tasked with checking, download Zite.
Released first as a personalised magazine for iPad, an iPhone app was launched not long before Christmas and offers a fantastic way of finding stories you may have missed.
Zite mashes together your Twitter, Google Reader and Read It Later feeds and delivers posts around your subject area. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-42274" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43099&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Zite2" width="250"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-42275" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43100&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="Zite1" width="250">
Not only does Zite surface posts you may miss using Twitter and RSS, it is intelligent and allows your to teach it exactly what you like and don't like via thumbs up, thumbs down buttons displayed on the story.
Zite will automatically work out your niche interests, which appear as categories along the top of the iPhone app and can be swiped through.
You can, of course, share to Twitter, email, Facebook and other services, including Evernote and Pinboard .
Zite's advantage could also be its downside: it only delivers a handful of stories rather than many every minute as Twitter does (presuming you are following lots of sources). To some this may be a disadvantage, to others they will enjoy reading the manageable amount of interesting posts the app unearths.
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Written by
Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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