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By Brett Dickerson, Oklahoma City Free Press<\/p>\n

Developer and journalist Christopher Guess set out to solve some of the bigger mobile distribution problems of small, online publications.<\/p>\n

From an intense experience working with small, online, developing news publications in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Guess could see that traditional mobile apps simply did not serve the small startup publication's needs.<\/p>\n

The outcome of those experiences was a "push" open-source mobile app platform.<\/p>\n

His big concept, and the subject of a fellowship this year at the Reynolds Journalism Institute<\/a> at the University of Missouri, is to provide an open-source mobile app platform that has the same advantages that WordPress has as a content management system.<\/p>\n

WordpPress doesn't provide a finished product, but it shortens the route to developing one by providing an extensive framework the publishers can modify for the outcome desired.<\/p>\n

Guess was blunt about the problems with some of the large, free social media avenues of distributing content.<\/p>\n

"If social media platforms are not directly charging, then they are costing you in other ways," Guess said.<\/p>\n

The problem<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He says the current mobile app development arch is very similar to the early days of website development, where each new site was custom built from a blank page with JavaScript and HTML.<\/p>\n

That hard-coding experience made web development very expensive and time-consuming for both the developer and the client. Once WordPress provided a platform, then development was shortened and far less expensive. Developing a website became more an issue of design and then inserting content.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that current mobile app development is like the early days of web development.<\/p>\n

Web developers would perfect chunks of code that they knew would work and then reuse them on new projects. Mobile app developers are doing the same thing.<\/p>\n

Guess says that the Push platform makes mobile app development far less expensive than the typical $30,000 – $50,000 price tag; shortens the development time from six months to a couple of weeks; and is far less confusing for everyone.<\/p>\n

He says the key problem with web apps is that the reader needs to be connected to the web to access them.<\/p>\n

Guess says the app provides:<\/p>\n

• Current headlines<\/p>\n

• Most recent stories<\/p>\n

• The ability to sort stories by categories<\/p>\n

• Offline caching of stories<\/p>\n

• Search through entire CMS history<\/p>\n

• Sharing of articles on social media<\/p>\n

• Analytic tracking<\/p>\n

• The ability to receive push notifications that direct user to stories and solicit in-app donations<\/p>\n

The path for content will be from the CMS to the Push server, then out to either the native iPhone or the native Android apps.<\/p>\n

I asked Guess after the presentation why he has made this open-source instead of proprietary where he could make much more money.<\/p>\n

"I'm a real bleeding heart," he said. "I want to fight the good fight and help these small publications any way I can."<\/p>\n

Brett Dickerson is Publisher of the Oklahoma City Free Press<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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