Aiming for 150 million users by the end of 2014, Flipboard had about 85 million users in September 2013 with 6 million users added within a month of the launch of version 2.0 of the application. With Paper, Facebook is directly challenging Flipboard, the news and social aggregator that presents stories in a magazine-style layout that flips between stories with swiping gestures.įlipboard also pulls content from news sources and entertainment sites, as well as Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. That's an unfortunate side effect of Flipboard not having an article mobilizer for reading content on the go.įlipboard's categorization and magazine-flipping presentation have made it a very popular choice for keeping up with RSS feeds and news, but it has a few flaws that keep it from being the perfect app for that.Facebook's new app for the iPhone is a slick new social feed and news reader. That's great if you and your friends are avid Flipboard users, but the app's community is so small that the social features seem tacked on instead of a full feature.įlipboard also caters to those who might not like reading black-on-white text articles with a dark interface that switches to white-on-black, but it's jarring to be taken out of the dark-mode app to the website to read an article on a white screen. You can like articles and comment on them, but it's commenting on the article in Flipboard's interface, so the comment is only available to other Flipboard users. That's unfortunate if you like to get all of your news reading done without a lot of fluff, but it is an excellent way to support sites that produce content you want to see stick around.įlipboard has some social features, but they're not very fleshed out and honestly best ignored.
Unlike other RSS feeds, Flipboard doesn't host full RSS content, so you'll have to click through to the actual site to read the full article. It's a quick way to browse through headlines if you're just wanting to get an overview of what's going on that day. Flipboard organizes all of your feeds by topics into what it calls magazines, which you can then flip through to see all of your relevant news for the day. Overall Opinion: Flipboard is a mobile RSS reader that is designed to change the way we interact with RSS feeds.
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