Monday, April 18, 2011

Flipboard: Threat and Opportunity | Monday Note

A timely Flipboard snapshot; see the link below for examples and more analysis (via Louis Gray)

So, what’s the fuss about?

The answer is a simple one: Flipboard is THE product any big media company or, better, any group of media companies should have invented. It’s an iPad application (soon to be supplemented by an iPhone version), it allows readers to aggregate any sources they want: social medias such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr or any combination of RSS feeds. No need to remember the feed’s often-complicated URL, Flipboard searches it for you and puts the result in a neat eBook-like layout. A striking example: the Google Reader it connects you to suddenly morphs from its Icelandic look into a cozy and elegant set of pages that you actually flip.

Flipboard: Threat and Opportunity | Monday Note

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