From Leanback To Stand-Up, iPad's Flipboard Flips To Phone
After demonstrating how tablets trump smartphones and PCs for leisurely and long-form reading, iPad’s new wave of magazine-like content aggr… Read more at paidContent »
Flipboard launches slick iPhone app
Flipboard, which made its name with a slick iPad app, is now branching out. The company is announcing a brand new iPhone app that is slick, sticky and addictive. The game plan, according to CEO Mike McCue, is to take attention away from the old-fashioned browser. Read more »
Flipboard Coming to China, Teams Up With Sina and Renren
Earlier this year you may recall that everyone’s favorite iPad reading app Flipboard was blocked in China. But apparently the GFW ain’t no t… Read more at paidContent »
Flipboard Readies For iPhone Launch, International Push
News aggregation app Flipboard has introduced new features to support its upcoming iPhone version, whilst also apparently preparing to re-la… Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo Livestand: All dressed up and no place to go
On Wednesday, Yahoo released its Livestand app, which combines aspects of apps like Flipboard and Zite with the digital magazine rack concept of Apple’s Newsstand. I took the app through its paces to see how the hybrid approach holds up in the face of the competition. Read more »
How connectivity is revolutionizing everything
Blazing fast networks, cheap silicon, always-on devices and a torrent of data will fundamentally change everything — how we consume media, how we work, and even who we are. We examined 10 areas that show how connectivity is profoundly changing the present and future of technology. Read more »
Kleiner Perkins wants startups to net top-notch summer interns
Exclusive: There are lots of great summer internships at Silicon Valley startups. But top engineering students often pass them up for the money and name recognition companies like Google can provide. So Kleiner Perkins has partnered with InternMatch to attract top-flight students to its portfolio companies. Read more »
Josh? It’s Steve Jobs. We have a really big problem.
When Josh Quittner, now editorial director of Flipboard, wrote a story on the former Apple CEO for Time, the magazine inadvertently betrayed two of Jobs’s core values: his obsession with controlling every detail and his love of secrecy. Read more »
Building a mobile app? Here are 6 tips for you
The mobile apps and services founders speaking at Mobilize 2011 this week gave some great advice for startups to follow. We picked out some of the best tips from Pandora, Flipboard, Instagram, Hipmunk, Formspring and Grey Area. Read more »
paidContent Advertising Video: Flipboard’s McCue Wants To Paginate The Web
One of iPad’s flagship apps wants to help publishers sell ads by flipping back to familiar old print rules. “One of the big problems with th… Read more at paidContent »
Flipboard is trying to reinvent media for the tablet age
Flipboard was created out of a desire to reinvent media consumption for a digital and tablet age, but that doesn’t mean it can’t help existing publications repair their damaged business models, editorial director Josh Quittner told attendees at GigaOM’s Mobilize conference in San Francisco on Monday. Read more »
Fotopedia graduates from iPad app to Flipboard magazine
Fotopedia, the visual storytelling startup founded by former Apple scientists, is turning its magazine-like travel photography app into an actual digital magazine called Fotopedia Magazine, an online publication focused on travel and culture. The digital platform of choice for distribution is another popular iPad app: Flipboard. Read more »
Look Out, Flipboard And Zite: Google Said To Be Working On News Reader App
Demand for slick news aggregation services on mobile devices has not escaped Google’s attention. According to reports, the company is planni… Read more at paidContent »
@ pcAds: Flipboard’s McCue: Interactive Ads Have Drawbacks
There is no scrolling on Flipboard — that’s rule number one, said Mike McCue, the social reader’s CEO, in a conversation with paidContentUK… Read more at paidContent »
News.me finally gets its wings — but can it fly?
News.me, the social news-curation app that was developed at the New York Times and then incubated by Betaworks, has been spun off as a separate company to sink or swim on its own. But can it compete with giants like Flipboard and other newer competitors? Read more »
After the CEO, Yahoo needs to fire its board
Despite the firing of Bartz, Yahoo is not out of the woods yet. It’s time for a complete face lift of Yahoo’s board. Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang needs to bring on folks who have a deeper understanding of the changes around and ahead of the company. Read more »
Can Editions find a place in the iPad news aggregation crowd?
AOL’s new Editions iPad app, billed as a “daily magazine that reads you,” is now available in the App Store. It’s actually remarkably smart and sexy, but can Editions hope to make a significant splash when similar apps like Flipboard already seem so firmly entrenched? Read more »
If your news site isn’t social, great design won’t matter
photo: See-ming Lee
Designer Andy Rutledge has been getting slammed for a blog post about the flaws that afflict most major news websites such as the New York Times — but his biggest mistake is arguing that news sites should avoid social-media elements, when the exact opposite is true. Read more »
Flipboard is a real digital magazine now — it comes with ads
Flipboard has taken the next step in its move to become a one-stop digital magazine by launching a partnership with traditional publishers like Conde Nast to push their ads into its app. Can the company succeed at digital advertising when so many other players have failed? Read more »
Dolphin Browser for Android turns web into a magazine
I previously gave Android device owners eight reasons to try the Dolphin Browser, and today the company adds reason number nine. The newest version of the popular third-party browser adds a Webzine feature, turning the browsing experience into a magazine-like platform to read top-tier content. Read more »
Flipboard wants to be the newsstand of the future
Flipboard, one of the first iPad applications to really take advantage of the new device’s touch interface to create a kind of digital magazine, today released a series of updates and new features that turn the app into even more of a tablet-based newsstand. Read more »
Future of media: This is no time for incrementalism
photo: Flickr user David Reece
As the recent report from the FCC on the future of media makes clear, describing the industry’s problems is a lot easier than coming up with solutions. Washington Post managing editor Raju Narisetti doesn’t have any answers either, but says now isn’t the time for incrementalism. Read more »
The Future of Media: Brands Are Publishers Now Too
The publishing world continues to expand, with high-end group shopping service Gilt Groupe launching its own cooking magazine and the New York Times Library releasing a magazine-style iPad app. As the tools to publish become cheaper and cheaper, brands are becoming publishers in their own right. Read more »
Can Publishers Create a Business Class For News?
What if media companies could come up with something similar to what business class achieves for airline passengers — would people pay for that? A news design agency thinks they would. But the problem for news companies is that others are already busy creating that experience. Read more »
Are Apps Like Flipboard the Future of Media?
Apps like Flipboard and Zite are showing traditional media entities what readers really want when it comes to mobile content consumption: smart aggregation, customization and personalization, and a better interface. If publishers don’t find a way to ride that wave, they will be crushed by it. Read more »
The Race to Build the “Daily Me” Continues
A new iPad app called Zite is the latest entrant in the race to build the “Daily Me,” a personalized newspaper that learns what you like. No one has really won this race yet, although Flipboard appears to be leading — and where is Google? Read more »
Yahoo Wants to Get Mobile And Personal With Livestand
Yahoo unveiled a new personalized digital newstand app called Livestand that will serve as a showcase for magazine content on tablets but will eventually drive the overall Yahoo experience across all devices. Livestand represents Yahoo’s drive to become more mobile and personal. Read more »
Is Flipboard Too Much Fun to Be Useful?
When Flipboard first arrived on the scene, it was essentially just a browser for Twitter and Facebook. But now the company has introduced support for Google Reader feeds, Flickr photos and other real-time media streams, as it tries to become a one-stop iPad portal for content. Read more »
Flipboard: Future is HTML5, RSS & New New Advertising
Mike McCue, the founder of Palo Alto, Calif.-based mobile media company, Flipboard, seems to have figured out a business model for his 20-person company. It revolves around a new kind of ad network, embracing RSS and betting that HTML5 is going to define its future. Read more »
Flipboard Wades Into Murky Copyright Waters Where Google Lives
Flipboard, a new content-browsing app for the iPad, raises many of the same thorny copyright issues that Google has been dealing with for years on Google News and Google Books. Is it a value-added service that content publishers should be thankful for, or a copyright-infringing parasite? Read more »
