CNN just posted a iphone app on itunes, and its getting quite the stir of attention right now. They really revamped the idea of a news app for the iphone, with saving articles, live video* and the iReport features built into the app. I think the price is fairly nice, $2 for such a large amount of app development work and a nice app is a pretty good deal. BUT….it has ads, and when you read the reviews on itunes, its like a wild witch hunt right now. CNN, people do not like paying for an app, then getting ads. I know where you are coming from with this, cough cough business model. CNN, ads in a pay app is a no-no, and you just pissed off thousands of people in the first week of launch.

Second, what in the world is with the news articles being white text on a black background? Its bad, backwards and hard to read. Next update, give me articles on a white background or at least the option. I posted a quick mockup (invert) of the way the article SHOULD be read, black text on white. For the love of god, fix this, right now I don’t even want to read the articles. This is a news app, not a twitter app.

Remember that ‘other’ section on our site where we would interview other designers and creatives. It was called Profile. You don’t? Oh well, neither do we! Heck its been about one year since the last time we interviewed someone. So today we moved all that old content into our blog (aka where you are now) and can now be found in the section Profiles. 

If you really never have checked out the interviews, your missing out! We have some great content including interviews with the likes of Mike Mills, John Maeda, D-Fuse, Non-Format and so many other talented people. If we see the stats spike on this content, we will do our best to start bringing more interactions like this back to life and into the blog.