Shanghai Daily newsletter upgraded
Date:2010-09-09
Users of ShanghaiDaily.com can enjoy an easier-to-use newsletter service after we revamped the free service, giving it a brand-new look and more functions as well.
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ShanghaiDaily.com completes major upgrade
Date:2010-08-10
ShanghaiDaily.com has finished an important server upgrade and we have moved into a new data center to cope with increasing traffic.
Thanks to the biggest hardware upgrade in four years, the new server provides a faster and more stable connection and a quicker response to user demand. It also gives us room to bring richer multimedia content to our Website and better support to our new media services and products, especially on mobile platforms.
During the switch period, some of you may have difficulty logging on to Shanghaidaily.com due to our IP switch. The problem may last one or two weeks but only a very small number of users will be affected.
Winners of Shanghai Daily’s monthly awards
Date:2010-07-23
The title of “Best Story of June” is shared by feature writer Yao Min-G and the business department.
Yao’s series of stories on Expo site Zone C (Expo Daily, June 15, 16, 21), with good writing skills and a fun touch, were based on her own tour experience in the site. Min-G gave a very detailed and useful three-part route to the zone rating attractions as hottest, popular, or unrated. She did lots of preparatory work. And the series received positive response from foreign readers who found her stories contained useful information.
The business desk contributed to the Lujiazui Forum series (B1, June 25/A10, June 26/A3, June 27/A11, June 28) with four consecutive days of reporting on the key economic and financial forum held in Shangahi. There was good teamwork throughout the preview, forum and after-forum reporting. The series touched on popular topics and offered insight from both regulators and experts.
One of the “Best Page Awards” goes to the biweekly My Business column (B5, June 4), design by Chen Jie. Biz reporter Feng Jianmin offers interesting stories as well as good photo shooting skills.
The other winner of ‘Best Page” was our South Africa supplement (June 10, C1-8). Editor Liu Qi and page designer Chen Jie organized the special coverage on FIFA World Cup with wonderful illustration by Yu Yige.
Shanghai Daily launches initial iPad app
Date:2010-07-19
Now you can download Shanghai Daily’s own iPad app, Shanghai Daily HD preview version, on the App Store of iTunes/Apple. (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shdaily-hd/id378323812?mt=8).
Enjoy reading Shanghai Daily stories on your tablet gadgets all for free.
The app allows users to access all sections of the daily print editions and afternoon updates of Shanghai Daily.
An updated app, Shanghai Daily HD full version, will be launched next month. Users of the current preview version will get automatic notification when the full version is available and upgraded.
The full version app will still be free to download but some of the premium features and full archive of new stories will be accessible exclusively to subscribers.
Shanghai Daily is also working on its app on iPad's little brother, iPhone, which shares a subscription with iPad. The iPhone app will be available late July.
Exclusive features of Shanghai Daily HD:
real-time updated stories across all sections
unlimited access to full archive
print edition grade layouts
high-definition galleries
user-friendly offline mode
breaking news notifications
functions to mark favorite articles, or share with friends
fully customizable user interface
full access to PDF editions
Vote for Expo pavilions
Date:2010-06-11
Now you can vote for your favorite World Expo 2010 pavilion on Shanghai Daily’s World Expo Website (expo.shanghaidaily.com).
The Pavilions section has added a new vote function. Just click onto the detail page at each pavilion, put your mouse onto the “vote” icon and cast your vote. You can vote for as many pavilions as you like, but each IP address can only vote once for the same pavilion during 24 hours.
iPhone and BlackBerry users will soon enjoy this voting function on the official Expo applications, provided by Shanghaidaily.com.
World Expo coverage features themed guides
Date:2010-06-08
Shanghai Daily's World Expo special coverage minisite (expo.shanghaidaily.com) now offers themed guide pages under its "Guide" section.
Published on an irregular basis, these guides cover various Expo spotlights like dining, Expo record-smashers, national treasures, movies, spots for kids, featured art pieces and pavilion highlights of Zone A.
Other updates to the minisite include some changes in the Transport section. Expo Bus Route 15 was cancelled and Routes 17-37 have been changed to All Stops Buses. The bus page was duly editted to reflect this change.
Monthly newsroom awards announced
Date:2010-05-28
Shanghai Daily unveiled its monthly “Best Stories,” “Best Pages” and “Best Pictures” awards today.
The best story for April went to Metro writer Xu Chi for his report “That’s amazing, Auntie Sweetie” (A2, April 21) - which was praised for its exclusive topic, interesting interview and clear writing. Xu is the only local reporter who managed to approach the grassroots star,
Ni Tao’s “Han Han is hardly a hero of our times” also won best story for its big influence. It was translated into Chinese and led a heated discussion on Sina’s blog, attracting much attention from young people.
The best page award for April was shared by Business headline news (April 16, B2) and Sunday’s City Scene (April 25, Page 5).
On the business news page, “Tamer CPI but 2 rate rises possible” was vividly represented by an illustration and chart.
Sunday’s City Scene page was well-integrated design introducing
The best picture award went to Zhang Suoqing’s “Sparkling Expo Night” on the front page of April 28. This beautiful picture caught an impressive view of fireworks for Expo’s trial run.
A special award went to Shanghai Daily’s Expo team. Five taskforces of 17 journalists worked hard to wrote trial run news of the Expo. They also provided many useful tips for Expo visitors.
World Expo Coverage Goes Vid
Date:2010-05-21
It’s the third week of World Expo
Shanghai Daily’s World Expo special coverage website opened for business two weeks before the grand opening ceremony. Web application developers and online content editors at the
International Channel Shanghai launched quite a few dedicated programs to report various aspects of the Expo. We stroke a deal with the online department of ICS to help syndicate their video content, as ICS agrees to convert the video to a variety of formats to support multiple platforms and release a public RSS feeds to the digital distribution of their programs.
Thanks to the channel data feed, ICS’s video coverage of the World Expo is synced with Shanghai Daily’s World Expo database in real time, so visitors can view the FLV video footages integrated with the webpage with a Flash video player directly in the Videos section, while MOV format of these videos are served to the user of Shanghai Daily’s World Expo 2010 iPhone App (xpo.sh/apple), which can be downloaded from iTunes of Apple App Store.
As a tradition, we designs the videos to be linked to all relevant items, such as pavilions, events and news articles published by Shanghai Daily. Thus, on all platforms, viewers from around the world are able to make clear connection among news stories and data encoded in various forms of media. At the bottom of an item’s detail page, related items (pavilions/events/news/videos) show up as lists. On the pavilion browser interface, under the thumbnail of each pavilion, graphical indicators show if there are single/multiple image and video content available.
