Flipboard, is as of now the “Next Big Thing” that everyone is talking about.
And while I try not to post about the “Next Big Thing” too often, I really do believe that this one is worthy of it’s “Next Big Thing”-ness.
Talk about a Game changer – Flipboard is an iPad app that pulls down your own stream of data from twitter and facebook (and eventually flickr, tumblr and other platforms too) and gives it to you in your own touch-screen magazine.
Check out the intro video here.
Billed as “the world’s first social magazine”, Flipboard removes any doubt of the usefulness of an iPad. Flipboard allows you to create your own magazine ‘homepage’. This can consist of 9 separate content topics – which you can create from your facebook account, or from various twitter lists.
I haven’t used the app myself, but my mind is racing with the applications of this application!
- You can browse images, read articles, even watch videos from your friends and follows.
- You can choose to show hide articles shared by certain users in your stream.
- Flipboard could serve up location relevant information, depending on where you are or want to be.
- You can asic interactions are supported – liking, replying, re-tweeting, etc.
- It even provides a model for publishers to get involved.
- All from within a simple and usable interface.
From what I’m reading, this thing is horrendously buggy right now. But by the time I can afford an iPad, I’m sure they’l have sorted those out. But oh, the possibilities.
It was September 2005 that I read my first RSS feed. It seems impossible to believe how far we’ve come in just five years.
Still reading? If you want to see more about this, check out the interview below between Flipboard’s founder Mike McCue and everyone’s favourite a-list nerd, Robert Scoble. (video via laughing squid)
