Beyond that, the Interactive Events app appears to offer a fairly standard feature set, providing details about events like the agenda, location, speakers, videos and notes, for example.
While he didn't share any concrete numbers, Sternberg said that the interactive posts have resulted in "fantastic interaction rates" and that people who see them are "disproportionately likely to interact with them".
Once we have interested users, the idea is that the interactive guides can provide depth.
The short answer is that the interactive revolution has still not happened.
But the most important thing here is that the interactive form doesn't detract or distract from the story.
CNet is expected to post revenue of $450 million in 2008, suggesting that the interactive unit is earning less than $200 million currently.
Once we had all the content and had established that the interactive was working, we had it translated into multiple languages by professional translators at Business Languages Services.
After the bubble burst in 2000, most people accepted that the interactive bit of this vision – Jennifer Aniston's t-shirt and all that – was nonsense.
In practice, the computer is servicing their demands in very rapid alternation, yet each user remains relatively unaware that the interactive process is not absolutely continuous.
Ebooks went on sale on the site a fortnight ago, selling £1.5m-worth in just three days, with a promise that the interactive part of the site would open in early April.
Pratchett might be pleased to know that the interactive station that's replaced it – Amazing Radio – by way of easing people into the transition have programmed two hours of bird song and ambient music between 11pm and 1am each night.
