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Zumobi keeps releasing new applications for the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone/iPod Touch. Latest on their list is TODAYshow.com, which native app offers users access to the program’s news, entertainment and lifestyle content.

The free application features videos, top stories and photos from popular TODAY topics, including interviews with newsmakers and features on health, food and wine, entertainment, relationships and fashion. Moreover, TODAYshow’s iPhone sports a neat and easy to use zooming UI, which apparently makes easy to browse around…

Enough said, if you like having TODAYshow’s content on your iPhone or iPod Touch, follow this link to grab the application for free (iTunes).

source:- http://www.intomobile.com/2009/04/27/todayshowcom-gets-an-iphone-app-via-zumobi.html

It doesn’t take a great deal of talent to write an e-book but the benefits can be enormous in the short and long term. The structure isn’t that difficult if you just follow the information detailed in this article. Although this process assumes that you’re doing the writing yourself, you could hire someone else to write the articles or just produce additional material.

The first thing to do research the topic for your e-book and write some articles and although this can be any subject, it is easier to write about something you are interested in that people are willing to buy the information you have. By writing the articles it provides practice and they are easier to do but they can also be used later to help promote your book in all sorts of online areas. If you want to know how successful the book will be, just send the articles on the topic of the book to various article directories to se how many people view them.

The overall structure can be a work in progress while the article content is being written. Books generally follow a familiar structure of: introduction, main subject content and a conclusion but it is becoming very common to see an additional section on resources. Many books now contain bonus material to give it more value and increase the number of people that buy it.

As you complete your articles, insert them into your e-Book, the number of articles you require will depend on the overall length. Because e-books are usually shorter than a printed version, no-one wants to read material that has been added that is not related so it is best to stay close to the topic of the book. If you stay close to the subject it will be easier for readers because computer screens are not the best medium for reading on.

As an added extra, why not supply the reader with some bonus material you have located to give added value to your e-book; this is always appreciated. of previous articles or even another short report you have compiled. The bonus material should really have a value all of its own and be directly related to the topic of the e-book.

The U.S. Army wants you - to be its friend on Facebook.
You can also follow the Army on Twitter. Or post a comment on its new blog. They’re all part of the Army’s new mission: social networking.
“If Ashton Kutcher can do it, the U.S. Army can do it,” said Lindy Kyzer, who posts the Army’s “status updates” on Facebook and “tweets” on Twitter.
Kyzer issued a public challenge - to get more followers on Twitter than Kutcher, an actor and social networking fiend who recently won a bet with CNN that he could reach 1 million followers first.
“We know that our ability to share the Army story is shaped by how we tell it and where we tell it,” said Lt. Col. Kevin Arata, who heads the Army’s new Online and Social Media Division. “Using social media platforms allows us to tell our story where we know people are at and are listening.”
Even Gen. Ray Odierno, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, is on Facebook. With nearly 5,000 “friends,” the four-star general is updating his status straight from the battlefield - something unheard of in past conflicts.
Gen. Michael Oates, commander of the 10th Mountain Division based at Fort Drum, N.Y., has been blogging from Iraq for months.
“Six soldiers honored for bravery in Afghanistan; are reminded, ‘of those who didn’t come back,’” reads one Army “tweet.”
“Drill Sergeants work hard to debunk Hollywood stereotypes about their role,” reads another.
The Facebook and Twitter messages are really an extension of the press releases and stories that Army officials put out through the Division of Public Affairs. But it’s also a place for soldiers and their families to connect.
“Most [wall posts] are shout-outs,” Arata said. “They’re people saying, ‘My son’s in the Army, my granddaughter’s in Iraq.’”
The Army’s not alone. The Air Force is on Twitter and the Coast Guard is on Facebook.
“It’s an instant support network,” Kyzer said. “We’ve seen a ton of parents on there.”

Officially launched on Thursday, the Army’s Facebook page already has more than 3,000 “friends.”
The page is an “open forum,” but there are rules of engagement: keep it clean and courteous.
“There have been very few negative comments,” Kyzer said. “It’s self-regulating - that’s the beauty of social networking.”
With more than 4,000 followers on Twitter, Army officials said they hope to gain a worldwide following.
“We’ll see where it goes,” Arata said. “We’re not fearful of what’s out there. We really want to see what the world has to say.”
sgaskell@nydailynews.com

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