Flipboard: Your Personalized Social Magazine
You’ve seen Twitter clients like TweetDeck or Seesmic, but you’ve never seen one like this. You’ve seen news readers like NewsGator, Google Reader, or, even, newer ones for iPad like Pulse, but you’ve never seen one like this. You’ve seen news aggregators like Techmeme, Google News, Skygrid, Yahoo News, Hacker News, or Huffington Post, but you’ve never seen one like this.
This is how Robert Scoble described for the new "killer app" on the iPad which is hot trending and making big waves on the internet today - Flipboard. The world's first social magazine that brings to life the stories, photos, news and updates being shared across Twitter and Facebook. It turns your account into something that looks like a magazine, also you can build a custom magazine which means you can turn every single person you follow into Flipboard, including lists. It will turn that into a beautiful magazine-like interface that is easier to read than any other reader. Switch on Facebook you’ll see your friend's status messages, articles, photos and videos, all laid out like a newspaper in a way you’ve never seen it before. Click on any item and you can see the originating status message and all comments, also you can "like" the item or comment on it.
- Touch an article and it "zooms" to reveal more.
- Touch a video and it plays inline.
- Turn your iPad and everything reconfigures, even photos switch from vertical to horizontal formats.
- Touch "read more on Web" on longer articles and instantly be transported to the original website that was the originator of the information discussed in the tweet.
- When you bring in your Facebook friends your friends’ photos, status messages, will all be laid out in attractive pages.
- You can touch to share, favorite, like, or retweet, depending on what you are reading.
