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Tank Bows Interactive Pop-up For Fashion Week
Huffington Post UK
A niche fashion publisher will launch a new app designed to bring its quarterly magazine to life with more than 100 videos and interviews. Tank Magazine, a quarterly UK magazine dedicated to contemporary culture, covering art, architecture, fashion, current affairs, and music, has spent six months developing the app, which they claim will turn the magazine into a "pop-up book for adults".
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Kindle, Plug-in Media To Produce Online Games
KidScreen
UK-based family entertainment producer Kindle Entertainment and digital media prodco Plug-in Media have been commissioned by the BBC to produce two online games based on two new Kindle kids series, Leonardo and Get Well Soon. The first game features 3D chase gameplay in an interactive comic strip format. The Leonardo game lets users play as the title character and drive his inventions through Renaissance Florence attempting to capture the evil Il Drago and his henchmen who have stolen Leonardo's vehicle designs.
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Deutsche Telekom, Bertelsmann In Content Factory
PaidContent.org
DT's T-Venture arm is amongst those backing Content Fleet, a data-driven startup that identifies content web users want - then writes it for them. Aiming to expand in Europe and to America, Content Fleet is raising a single-digit-million-euro amount from T-Venture, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investment and Neuhaus Partners, which all previously put EUR2.5 million in to the outfit.
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Europe's Just About Out Of Internet Addresses
BBC
Strict rationing of these addresses - called IPv4 - has been started by the body that hands them out in Europe. From now on, companies can only make one more application for IPv4 addresses and, if successful, will only get 1,024 of them. In addition, any application for more old addresses must demonstrate how an organisation is using the new, replacement, addressing scheme.
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Wikipedia Makeover Recognizes Female Pioneers
The Independent
They are some of the most important names in modern science, pioneers in their fields. But, unless you work in academia, it is unlikely that you will have ever heard of them. All that is set to change, though, as the Royal Society hosts a mass "edit-a-thon" to improve the Wikipedia profiles of leading female scientists who have been ignored and overlooked by the online encyclopedia's male-dominated army of contributors.
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