. . . a totally re-designed and enhanced version of the content from the mag that’s fully interactive. The image display is super vivid, its got exclusive embedded video, and the content flows like you’ve never seen in print. Navigation is simple, urging you to dig deeper into every issue. . . Swipe left and right to move among stories. Swipe down to read more. Jump between sections by swiping with two fingers, or through the pop-up Contents panel—just push up with two fingers at the bottom of the screen to access Contents and Issues. Tap the screen to make the text disappear and focus solely on the big, beautiful images. Tap it again to bring the text back.
The iPad is still too big and heavy for out tastes and you know what we think about magazine apps, but if there’s an iPad at your house, be sure to load this up and let us know how it looks. Issues are only $2.99 a piece, or nearly four times the price of a Zinio subscription to the same mag.
“The addition of Grind Networks to our portfolio demonstrates our corporate strategic commitment to finding and investing in the right partners who have the vision to deliver targeted content, across multiple platforms, to our enthusiast consumers,” said Michael L. Sullivan, Chief Executive Officer of Source Interlink Companies, Inc. . . With this move, former Grind Networks CEO Erik Hawkins will oversee all digital sales and marketing efforts for the new group; President/COO Greg Morrow will direct all technical and digital product development aspects of the business. The two founded Grind Networks in 2005 after serving as executives at Yahoo!, CitySearch and Launch Media. Both will report directly to Norb Garrett, Senior Vice President and Group Publisher of SIM’s ASG.
It will be interesting to see what magic ASG’s Norb Garrett can work with these sites as none (aside from Newschoolers in ski and Ridemonkey in MTB) have yet to have gained any authentic traction with either advertisers or readers. And while the domains snowboarder.com, motocross.com, and skateboard.com obviously have potential, this whole deal seems like a rather complicated, expensive way to upgrade a couple URLs.
Event organizers will meet tomorrow at 8am to assess conditions for a possible 8:30am start. . . Magicseaweed, the official forecasters for the Rip Curl Pro Portugal, are calling for massive swell for the opening days of the waiting period.
If the contest begins tomorrow at 8:30 AM (11:30 PM PST) it will be live online right here. The biggest question we have is will Mick Fanning go for the European double double? It seems highly possible. Follow the jump for round one heat match-ups and the official word from the ASP. [click to continue…]
Baltimore, Maryland’s Johnny Rad’s Pizzeria Tavern borrows its name from the singer in The Bones Brigade Video Show, its logo from Black Flag, and features a menu inspired by some of skateboarding’s finest. One example is the Nomad salad named after Bill Danforth. But the most surprising thing about Johnny Rads, according to Baltimore Sun food writer Rob Kasper, is that the food is good.
The menu was limited — bar fare, salads and pizzas — but the dishes had flair. A bowl of house-made hush puppies ($5) came with a creamy horseradish sauce that was outstanding. We polished off the sauce before the hush puppies, in part because the hush puppy portion size was so generous. . . Another bit of bar fare, the el vortex, a black bean hummus ($6) a vegan dish (Pugh is a vegetarian) that came with ample servings of carrots, and celery.
Johnny’s is owned by Rich Pugh and Steve Ball and as Kasper says in his headline, “Skateboard dudes can cook.”
My colleague Nicole Kobie has a defunct Nabaztag rabbit sitting on her desk. . . Nevertheless, it’s a distinctive product and one that Goggles should have no problem identifying. Should. Inexplicably, it returned a search result for Burton snowboards. Verdict: miss.
Wonder what kinds of strange Google tricks Burton has been playing lately?
As part of International Walk To School Day San Clemente’s big wave charging brothers Greg and Rusty Long acted as escorts for kids walking to Concordia Elementary School, according to a story in the OC Register.
They told how – growing up in staff housing at San Clemente State Beach, where their father was chief lifeguard – they would walk to school daily. They had a favorite shortcut, even in pouring rain. . . “We had dirt, mud, a little grass patch and then a (wood) bridge that would sometimes wash out in the wintertime,” Greg said. “It was always fun.”
While the idea of attending a surf museum event conjures nightmares of pear-shaped old men in double XL Reyn Spooners blasting stories of yesteryear across the room on invisible waves of Black Label breath, there is something special about surfing’s past and occasionally it’s worth diving in.
Few museums bring surfing’s past to life better than Oceanside’s California Surf Museum. Today they are kicking off their Califorinia Surf Festival (October 6-10, 2010) with the film Accidental Icon: The Real Gidget Story and an appearance by the original Gidget herself, Kathy Kohner Zuckerman. Show starts at the Brooks Theater at 7 PM (217 N. Coast Highway, Oceanside, CA), but there is a special VIP reception at 6 PM.
But that’s not all. On Thursday October 7, 2010 Donavon Frankereiter will play a show, too. Click the link for more info.
These new Isotoner Smart Touch Gloves make it possible to text and have obviously changed Sean Black’s life, but seriously, we’re not really interested in handling our electronic life-source while hanging 50 feet in the air with gloves on. They’re just too slippery. On the other hand, the Isotoner are on sale at JCPenny for $29.99.
Yeah, it’s beginning to look a bit like winter on the Eastern Slope of California’s Sierra Nevada Range. It won’t be long. But these guys just couldn’t wait and got an edit out on October 5, 2010.
But the well-known name of Whistler may be an easier sell for an audience of retail investors, especially after the successful Olympics at the site last winter. As a result, an IPO is now the favoured option, sources said. . . “They didn’t like the valuations they got [from other buyers] so they will try the IPO market,” said a second person familiar with the situation.
When you can’t get smart money might as well go retail, but It’s difficult to imagine a scenario where this turns out well no matter how sexy Canadian resorts are.
Transworld Media launched a new application for the Apple iPad today called TransWorld Snowboarding+. We’re not exactly how it is different from the digital magazine subscriptions Transworld sells on the Zinio platform, but it reportedly includes the following:
