This Week in iPad – Akshay Kothari Co-founder, Alphonso Labs (Makers of Pulse news reader)

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This week we have Akshay Kothari, Co-founder, Alphonso Labs (Makers of Pulse news reader). For more information, show notes, and an upcoming schedule, go to www.thisweekin.com.

Sponsor #1 — Gazelle (3:00)

Gazelle is a service which will purchase your old or gadgets, video games, cell phones, laptops, digital cameras, PDAs, gaming consoles and cell phones.

News (8:15)

iPad Today — Leo Laporte’s TWIT.TV network will be launching a new iPad-centric show today which will be streamed live at 1:30 PM PT with co-host Sarah Lane. The show will be available later for download on TWIT.TV

Corporations Love the iPad — Wells Fargo, SAP and Mercedes Benz are increasingly adopting the iPad as a business device.

iPad Cam Case — A designer has developed a concept case for the iPad which would feature a rotating camera.

Mac Sales — NPD data showed that Mac sales remained strong, despite concerns that the iPad would cannibalize sales of Mac computers.

Geeks Hate the iPad — Andrew McAfee wrote an article on Forbes saying that geeks hate the iPad because Apple doesn’t, as he believes, allow for open innovation on the device.

Sponsor #2 — Print Magic (31:00)

“Print Magic” Wellala is also a sponsor of This Week in iPad. The application allows users to print to any Wi-Fi connected printer directly from an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. Users can copy and paste text into the application for printing and users can also print images from the iOS photo library directly. Print Magic and Print Magic HD are available from the App Store. Host Lon Harris said on This Week in iPad that the app is “incredibly fast” and “works like a dream.”

Guest – Akshay Kothari (36:00)

Kothari shared that when developing Pulse Reader, Alphonso labs, aimed at building news in a visual manner without focusing on providing the maximum amount of content. Kothari said the biggest pain point for users is the 20 feed limitations, which is done for memory management purposes. He added that Pulse News Reader would allow for more feeds in the next update and providing better organization for feeds.

Kothari said that in the future, news readers would likely no longer sort stories via source and instead users would perhaps share stories in social news clouds in which users could read news that their friends are reading. Kothari said that in the last several weeks that the further development of Pulse has been focused on improving performance of the application.

Harris mentioned the New York Times takedown request which got Pulse News Reader removed from the App Store temporarily. Kothari shared that Pulse included popular reads which many people were adding and that he thought the New York Times got upset because the application was pre-loading their feed. Kothari expressed disappointment that the New York Times went to apple instead of directly to Alphonso Labs and said that his company had a good working relationship with Apple.

Planet of the Apps and Closing Remarks (52:00)

Harris showed off his pencil and rubber band iPad stand and said that he would discuss how to build the iPad stand on next week’s show.

Harris thanked the show’s technical staff for their hard work on the show.

iBooks

Borders

Barnes & Noble

Kindle

To close the show, Harris thanked Gazelle and Wellala for sponsoring the show and Matthew Paulson of iPad Weekly for being the show’s official blogger.

Duration : 1:13:23

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