You can also use the app and/or a browser bookmarklet to create your own magazines. Reading is only half the Flipboard story, though. Think of it as your own personalised daily paper with sections you have chosen yourself. As well as bringing together publications you want to read, such as national and local newspapers, you can add blogs that you want to follow and social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Googleplus. Its beautiful layout and interface is seen at its very best on tablets and smartphones.įlipboard describes itself as ‘a single place to discover, collect and share the news you care about’. Unlike many apps which moved from desktop computers or the web to mobile devices, Flipboard was made for mobile. In January, Flipboard launched a local news initiative in 23 North American metropolitan regions.For this app review we are looking at Flipboard a news and reading app that can also be used for curating online content. In 2010, launched a paid TV service in February that serves readers professionally shot and directed short-form videos from major publications. The Storyboards feature is Flipboard's latest effort to stand out in the crowded news aggregation space. In an interview, CEO Mike McCue called Storyboards "a very powerful type of new curation." The feature represents a next step in the company's approach to curation, McCue said, creating a "finite" process for gathering information to help readers get up to speed on a particular subject. Once a Storyboard is published, it won't be updated. Unlike Flipboard's user-created Magazines, which are constantly updated, Storyboards deliver news as a snapshot. Storyboards also represent another first for Flipboard because they were designed to be shared on social media platforms, where they appear as a conventional article link. Most well-known aesthetic features: a presentation that channels the look and feel of a physical publication onto a tablet or phone. The scrolling navigation marks a break with one of Flipboard's Storyboard format takes on a new look for the news aggregator.
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