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In 2009, Forrest Media was a winner in an international contest for news startups hosted by the Knight Foundation. Its project, dubbed CityCircles, created a new content-management system that helps people share information around locations that are geographically significant to hyperlocal communities. The first implementation of CityCircles was applied to the light rail transit community in the Phoenix-metro area in Arizona. It allowed people to share news, events, classifieds, community projects and merchant specials around each train station along the METRO line, a 20-mile stretch of train...
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Forrest Media offers help with creative visioning and development of mobile applications for smartphones. The company has been part of two such projects involving traditional media and new media. A mobile application for the iPhone helps readers of PHOENIX magazine find the best and newest reviewed restaurants around their location whenever they boot up the PHOENIX magazine dining app. The information includes specials and comments from decorated restaurant critics, as well as happy hour or exclusive deals for the app users. A mobile application for the iPhone helps users of Phoenix’s...
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