Flipboard, the first truly social electronic magazine, is an application for content consumption. This is not your new full-functioned Twitter or Facebook client on an iPad; it’s a way to read the articles your friends think are most interesting in a format that emphasizes photos, typography, and the appeal of well-placed white space.
Flipboard is a free app, and once you have it installed and you’re logged in to your Facebook and Twitter accounts, it will scan your friends’ posts and present the links and articles that they’ve been posting to Facebook or Twitter to you in a magazine-like layout. Your Facebook friends, their shared links, photos, and videos are all arranged in a layout that looks much better than Facebook itself, and the links from the people you follow on Twitter are pre-loaded and the articles displayed in-line. [Read more...]
