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coming up: iPhone project

Jake posted on Friday, November 14th, 2008 | Blog, PRX in the News, Tech

Karen Everhart of Current catches up on a new project that PRX is helping pull together – an iPhone application for public radio.

To be released early next year: a CPB-funded adaptation of the APM player to be developed by a partnership of NPR, APM, PRI, Public Interactive and Public Radio Exchange (PRX).

The jointly developed player will probably offer even more stations plus additional capabilities. It aims to let users find a local station by using the cell phone’s global positioning system capability, according to Jake Shapiro, PRX executive director. And it will allow searches for pubradio stations by format.

Read the full article on Current.org.

We’ll be posting more on this soon, it’s an exciting project that charts new territory by bringing NPR, APM, PRX, PRI and Public Interactive together to collaborate in developing applications for public radio. The aim is to manage the resulting code and related parts in an open source approach that invites other public media partners to make use of what we’re building.

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