New App: Flipboard
One of the fun things about getting an iPad is getting to play with all of the new apps that don’t fit on your iPhone. Today’s app is called Flipboard, which calls itself “your personalized social magazine.”
Flipboard is a news aggregator that includes your Twitter and Facebook feeds. But it doesn’t lay everything out like your typical aggregator. It lays it out like a magazine (see right). Hence, the description.
The first thing I like about it is that the layout changes every time you open it. That could be irritating for some, but I like that it feels fresh when I am looking at tweets that I already read in Twitter.
It also pulls in all of your friends’ Facebook photos and makes you interested in seeing those vacation pictures just because the layout is different. (Can we all admit that we skip those pictures when we are scrolling through our feeds online?) I just find that looking at the pictures in a more offline format takes away from the beating of needing to constantly click Next.
The one drawback that I have seen so far is that there seems to be a limited number of providers that you can add without going out and finding a feed on your own. One feed I didn’t have to go out and find is Uncrate. That’s daily gadget reading for me, even though it’s just a list of stuff I want.
In all, Flipboard is a fun app that presents everything I read to me like a magazine. I like it a lot. The set up is quick and easy and it’s a fresh way to read the stuff you were going to read in the first place.
