Wednesday, November 21st 2012
Presenting NextPowerUp
Presenting NextPowerUp, our sister tech-publication in the works, designed with a bigger canvas. TechPowerUp established itself as one of the top PC hardware publications thanks to our pursuit for quality reviews and relentless news delivery. We decided it was time to put these core ideals to use, in addressing the much larger consumer electronics and gadgets markets, without disturbing TechPowerUp's focus on PC enthusiast content, one of its hallmarks.
NextPowerUp is designed to keep you up to speed on the latest in over 20 markets (and growing), each with its own content channel, and editors hand-picked for them. These include Audio (personal, home, professional, concert), Business, Cinema (filming, production, exhibition), Desktops (pre-built desktop PCs), Displays (signage, projectors), Gadgets, Gaming (games, game development, gaming industry, consoles), Internet (the business of WWW), Networking (social networking), Notebooks (notebooks, Ultrabooks, netbooks), Phones (of all shapes and sizes), Photo & Video (cameras of all shapes and sizes), Politics (industry soap-opera), Robots (outside assembly lines), Science (popular science, space exploration), Software, Storage, Tablets, Televisions (TVs and technologies built around them), Transportation (wheels that don't run on fossil fuels), and Wireless (Cellular carriers, commercial WiFi).
Sounds good? We're looking for talented and motivated people who would like to join us on our journey into the post-PC era. There are various positions open:
1. In less than 270 characters (use a word processor to count), come up with a crisp, catchy, and concise paragraph on any one of the following recent developments:2. To supplement your CV, informally tell us a bit about yourself (to the extant you're comfortable with, we won't judge you on that). Tell us how you developed a passion for the area(s) of interest you'd like to work with us for.
NextPowerUp is designed to keep you up to speed on the latest in over 20 markets (and growing), each with its own content channel, and editors hand-picked for them. These include Audio (personal, home, professional, concert), Business, Cinema (filming, production, exhibition), Desktops (pre-built desktop PCs), Displays (signage, projectors), Gadgets, Gaming (games, game development, gaming industry, consoles), Internet (the business of WWW), Networking (social networking), Notebooks (notebooks, Ultrabooks, netbooks), Phones (of all shapes and sizes), Photo & Video (cameras of all shapes and sizes), Politics (industry soap-opera), Robots (outside assembly lines), Science (popular science, space exploration), Software, Storage, Tablets, Televisions (TVs and technologies built around them), Transportation (wheels that don't run on fossil fuels), and Wireless (Cellular carriers, commercial WiFi).
- Writers for news, articles, editorials, and interviews, in any single (or a combination of) channel(s) listed above,
- Channel Editors who along with writing, can marshal writers and oversee their work in a particular channel of their area of expertise,
- Web Designers who work with our web developers to incrementally improve the design, usability, and functionality of the site,
1. In less than 270 characters (use a word processor to count), come up with a crisp, catchy, and concise paragraph on any one of the following recent developments:2. To supplement your CV, informally tell us a bit about yourself (to the extant you're comfortable with, we won't judge you on that). Tell us how you developed a passion for the area(s) of interest you'd like to work with us for.
87 Comments on Presenting NextPowerUp
Could you outline what you would like a video review/update to be about?
Any general requirements, editing, professional gear, hardware?
These news articles need to be in a single column by themselves, and polls and comment counter can be placed in columns of the left and right. There is just far too much clutter.
The articles:
I absolutely love the layout of the articles... Great work their adding social widgets and easily accessible comment section. Everything looks in neat order.
The search bar:
I'm not fond of how the search bar is setup. I DO like instant results, but it should not be instant results within the home page itself. The instant results should appear on the bar. It takes away from what you are reading on the homepage.
no plans for me to write on npu. just strategic planning, coding the site engine and back office
sample of my networking hardware reviews: remixedcat.blogspot.com/2012/11/amped-wireless-ap20000g-full-review.html
It keeps the site more "news centric" and less "section centric" like a forum tends to do.
If the majority of the audience you are trying to target is of the type to simply consume information (and possibly comment) without necessarily wanting to generate discussion outside of the news itself, it's a far superior method.
There are 1000s and 1000s of Wordpress sites that incorporate both blogs and news, using comments only, that are heavily trafficked.
As I explained, my point isn't that the site will fail because of it, but will be made less engaging, in my opinion. This form of news-centric participation is already available on tpu underneath every news story, so members are simply being offered less options for participation.
Good for forum visibility (traffic) too.