Monday, April 28, 2014 (15:30) | Bart Breij
Blendle is live from today. From now on, you do not pay for an entire newspaper or a magazine entirely, but do yourself an article you want to read on the desktop, iPad or iPhone. In February we had the scoop that Blendle as échte app on both Apple touch screens will appear. Now it’s ‘just’ a website on the iPhone and iPad – but one that is so good that you may be wondering what a real app yet adds
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In the same conversation we had with Blendle founder Marten Blankesteijn in February, has been entrusted to us that the application was not yet ready to use with browsers other than Google Chrome on the desktop. If you Blendle the releaseday visited in Safari on the iPad, you can read a message that the site can cause crashes the browser.
Typical interface
Still, you’re a busy further carelessly sweeping through the messages recommended by other users. Not down, but in the horizontal interface that characterizes Blendle. The articles are derived from various media who have logged into Blendle and often with a text shorter than a tweet recommended by users you follow. If your selection is too small, you can move from tab to Next Trending which indexes the most popular articles in the last hours. Or to Real, where to read all favorites of all users.
The iPhone is the only Apple-platform Blendle renounces the typical horizontal layout. You will find the recommended items among themselves, preceded by the announcement with a recognizable, narrower frame. Also on the Browse page, the newspapers and magazines from the range of Blendle among themselves. NRC, nrc.next, Volkskrant, Trouw, AD, Telegraph, Newspaper of the North, Leeuwarden Courant, BN De Stem, Parool, Freedom Netherlands, Elsevier, Quest, The Green Amsterdam, New Scientist, Dutch newspaper, Quote, Nieuwe Revu, Tubantia, Eindhoven Dagblad, Panorama, VIVA, and yes, the story show their cover to be. scrolled
read Delicious difficult headhunting
Regardless of whether you Blendle read on the iPhone, iPad or the desktop, scroll through newspapers and magazines do you always from left to right. The pages are displayed side by side, unfolded as a kind of fast PDF document you can not zoom. It is currently the Achilles heel of Blendle. You are browsing through the pages, but they are definitely on the iPhone as scaled-down, it’s hard to race. Cups Let alone headlines read.
Fortunately Blendle is there to find what. You have not read the article immediately when you tap it. First you see the price of a piece, ranging from 10 cents for each item in the NRCs to 89 cents for a long story of Elsevier. Adjust with extra pressure, the article opens and then you still have fifteen seconds to determine if you can find an article worth. Just enough time to explore at length and too little time to make. Really beginning to article Press an article early road, you will see that you have read and free press ‘Super Sympathetic’ before returning to the parent page.
Reading itself is in voortreffeklijk Blendle. The iPhone is the space from the screen edges to the text just right. The various media retain their preference of the fonts and color schemes that they are using themselves be printed, or in any case maintain the feeling of the medium. The Algemeen Dagblad has a more modern character than loyalty and also slim headstyle of Freedom Netherlands is reflected. Nowhere is it at the expense of the legibility. Not on the iPhone, in long pieces of text under differentiated by headings. And not on the iPad, in which the horizontal scrolling sometimes creates a ‘wall of text’ feeling. In the horizontal or lying on the iPad is sometimes all you see text that orients restless when there is no between headings in the text. On the iPhone’s introduction image of a piece can better again. Opening Pictures are clear and sharp on both devices, but for example, the portrait of a columnist on the iPhone is fully stretched before you start reading. More than pressed between heads important for readability. But the overall readability is little to criticize. Subdivision in the columns and line spacing, Whopper in payments
After registration you can count on 2.50 euro credit as a new user in Blendle. Enough for 25 articles of the NRC, 10 of the Volkskrant, five stories of Quest or a mixture of short and long articles in other media who deliberately make distinction. A subscription is not there, though we know that we are working on subscriptions that you can take on a particular medium within Blendle.
Where Blendle excels as a mobile website, the ease with which you pay widens the wallet. It’s not as simple as you enter the password for an in-app purchase in an application, but what’s it! The purse page within your profile, you can pay with PayPal, Credit card and PayPal. You expand your budget by 5 euros (30 cents transaction fee), 10 euros or 20 euros (both no transaction costs) and can tick whether you want to upgrade if you are talking about less than 1 euro automatically. With iDEAL you do then have to choose to complete the app from your bank. Complete your transaction banking The credit is active immediately. And with a press then turn automatically upgrade again -. What is even simpler than a subscription within iOS stop 
Who receives the payment?
the receiving end of the payment of Blendle, what questions are put. Blendle picks up 30 percent of every transaction and 70 percent goes to the publisher. For example The Post Online and DeNieuweReporter sound angry noises that the writer of an article is not paid immediately. In various Tweets will include founder Blankesteijn that thought about it and negotiation.
Devaluation
What might be a bit nibbles when using Blendle, is that you’re going to ask what an item may be worth. off As for me, you’re newspaper subscriber for years but really no more than five articles in a day really read it, you may wonder why you paid so much for the newspaper. Besides, what if you’ve ever spent, 10 cents of articles but afterwards are not impressed by the story of 50 cents? You can reclaim your money Blendle – it gets you even made easier with an easily visible statement, but is a product of 50 cents a bad buy? Even if you have paid for the news, nothing of years you may be wondering what a product should cost and whether just such micro transactions, the value of journalism not devalue.
Small interface failures
Back to the actual. To Blendle as it is now on the iPhone and iPad, and what is in any case better. On both devices, you can swipe back to go. Previous page It’s a trick from Safari itself, but it is not advisable to use it. Just hook because no page with that, but goes back to the previous page visited, and it can also mean that you return the contents of a newspaper to a message that you read earlier. On the iPhone and iPad fog on the overview pages mainly a back button. Articles themselves can take excellent flattening with an orange cross, but lacks the skill statements. Instance, you must re-scroll through the entire list of magazines to continue where you left off before you opened the last magazine. The same applies to the articles that have been shared by other users.
What can an app to add?
with the main sticking point of the website Blendle on the touch screen, you can you wonder why the aangekondigde real app Blendle is nodg. The payment convenience Blendle is extraordinary – and, moreover, the money goes straight to the service and the publishers themselves, rather than Apple. Readability is excellent here and there as a subheading in an article, and because the app gives you tips to actively follow new people is also building a network on the website no problem. The benefits of an app go clearly beyond the scope of the current website. A push message if your favorite newspaper ready, new background stories about your subjects preferred example. Or a whole day to save for offline use before making a long trip. The app would share via Twitter and Facebook can also arrange and easier. Itself from iOS And maybe the appvorm can also ensure that there is not all the time a charging animation on the screen, while using Blendle. Praiseworthy
Currently Blendle may be fine without that functionality. Recommendations from other users constantly excite to read articles even without you browse a newspaper or magazine. If Blendle user you are unfaithful to each medium, you can read all together and you always pay a different amount for an item. Perhaps that is dangerous to the perception that quality content should cost. Maybe it ensures that you immediately cancel your newspaper subscription. Maybe it excites correct to assume. A Saturday newspaper It is difficult to predict, and personal. But at least Blendle makes sure that you are given different media without difficulty. Timeliness of different sides of his character. More in-depth sounds can learn more about issues. Blendle ensures that you can be a small fee. Better informed reader That makes it incredibly praiseworthy. This website is so fine that it makes an app almost superfluous, is therefore very welcome bonus
Direct visit:. Blendle.nl
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