Google Play Newsstand is trying hard to compete with popular news apps
like Flipboard with the functionality of Pocket, and this new version is a good first step.
The Yoga Tablet 10 displays text clearly, but when reading a BBC article
on Flipboard in Book mode the words didn't look bold or sharp.
Updated version of
Flipboard App for Android comes with fixing menu options on certain devices, fixing bugs and accidentally closing an article when zooming and panning.
You can think of it as a magazine style reader that competes
with Flipboard in terms of market share.
The Android version
of Flipboard comes from the success of their iOS application.
Publishing companies are definitely interested in these applications, as we heard
from Flipboard CEO Mike McCue Thursday at paidContent Advertising, both in terms of how they can present the news and the unique ads they can attract.
Vernon is currently an angel investor
in Flipboard, the world's first personal social magazine for mobile devices.
And traditional magazines are now forced to compete with free apps such
as Flipboard and Feedly, which mimic the experience of reading a magazine while also pulling in content from social media, blogs and other sources.
You can view them on the LMA Conference Section on LXBN, LXBN's YouTube Channel, and LXBN's
Flipboard Magazine on LMA 2014.
TreeRing, a San Mateo, Calif. - based company that brings social networking into the creation of school yearbooks, has raised $ 3.6 million in Series A funding from
Flipboard CEO and co-founder Mike McCue, Second Ave Partners, Cedar Grove Investments and other angel investors.
Reports about missed revenue targets, failed acquisitions, and an exodus of executives are untrue,
Flipboard co-founder says.
In effect, smart magazines are bundles of content on various topics, aggregated for users
by Flipboard's algorithms, but also based on recommendations from its human editors.
Newer apps like
Flipboard don't have the detail of their iPad counterparts, but they work.
What I have found annoying is the fact that Samsung still
included Flipboard as a separate home screen.
«I think the biggest benefit [of
using Flipboard] for a business owner is that you can curate the app to give you information that's the most relevant to you, regardless of the source,» Honigman says.
The high resolution display makes things like
Flipboard content, magazines and video look better than I've ever seen on a tablet or laptop.
Flipboard also announced that its platform now supports the VAST video advertising standard, and said it is working with a number of launch partners to bring video ads into its digital magazines, including eBay and Essence.
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Still, there are more than 50 to try already, including some quirky offerings and watch faces that recall the glory days of the classic Pebble Watch — everything from tip calculators, apps for Nest and Philips Hue light controls, a Starbucks pay - by - barcode app,
Flipboard news headlines and Strava.
And as users personalize their magazines, all topics and publishers followed will by synched with mobile and tablet devices through the one
Flipboard account.
Cofounder and CEO Mike McCue tells us that before
launching Flipboard, he made his engineers hook up double the amount of servers they thought would be necessary.
The Twitter account of a YouTube staffer was hijacked
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Twitter seems to have figured out how to sell ads against this base,
while Flipboard has been in a much more experimental mode.
Fearing that a spec bump won't be enough to topple the Samsung Galaxy S4, HTC has opted to differentiate itself with two peculiar design decisions too; a new 4 - megapixel camera and a home screen
resembling Flipboard.
The new feature also takes advantage of the analytical engine that
Flipboard got when it acquired Zite, another news - curation app that the company bought last year from its owner CNN, McCue said.
Critics
loved Flipboard's magazine - like layout, created by one of the first software designers of the iPhone, and investors poured money into the company.
As part of that pitch,
Flipboard announced on Monday that it is opening up its interest graph to advertising partners.
After leaving Apple, he
started Flipboard, an app that gathers news from a variety of sources and presents it in an easy - to - ready format.
McCue says
Flipboard now has more than 20 million of these magazines.
McCue has previously been a Twitter board member, who stepped down due to the increasing competition
between Flipboard and the service he co-founded.
Samsung Galaxy S III showed the
new Flipboard for Android during the last unpacked event.
Flipboard puts all your social media in one place so you can see what's new, without having to scan through seven different apps.
Flipboard gives people a single place to stay informed and get inspired to pursue their passions.
The World of Ice and Fire magazine on
Flipboard provides a centralized hub that explores all things related to George R.R. Martin.
Most of the included Samsung apps are quite useful, but
Flipboard integration continues to seem more like bloatware.
My Magazine, the newsfeed that lives to the let of your home screen, has morphed
into Flipboard (which powered it anyway).
As co-founder and Chief Exec Mike McCue noted at the time, it opened the door for
Flipboard clones to step in in their place (see Zaker for example)
Personally, I decided to turn off almost everything, even mostly useful features like
Flipboard briefing.