The Twitter account of a YouTube staffer was hijacked
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This past week I was browsing
through the Flipboard app on my iPad, and came across a story of a graphic designer who apparently was fed up with seeing Craigslist ads wanting experienced designers that were offering no pay whatsoever.
Not exact matches
Flipboard, the magazine - style app that got its start with the original Apple iPad, has been
through a number of iterations in the years since its launch.
Although algorithms are necessary simply because of the sheer volume of data
Flipboard is sifting
through, humans are crucial, he says.
Those could be articles from websites they subscribed to via RSS feeds, pieces they encountered on Twitter, or from digital magazines that partner with
Flipboard and distribute their content
through it.
One theme running
through both the Bloomberg and Journal pieces was that
Flipboard has been trying to sell itself — to both Twitter and Yahoo, reportedly — but having no luck because its numbers are so bleak.
People are finding media
through their Facebook or Twitter feeds, limiting the need for a stand - alone application like
Flipboard.
I was flicking
through my news feeds on
Flipboard the other day (
Flipboard for iOS is where I find the news I'm interested in rather than that which some newspaper editor of radio or TV producer thinks I should read, see or hear — I haven't bought a newspaper for at least ten years and am all the better and more diversely informed for that).
We get our phones out and frantically scroll
through Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit,
Flipboard, Tumblr, Flickr, Super, Pinterest, Vine, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn...
Flipboard is committed to generating revenue
through advertising, while Pulse is focused on a subscription based model.
If you aren't sure where to begin, take a stroll
through the Daily Edition, featuring articles (complete with breaking news and an accompanying audio track) hand - picked by the
Flipboard team each morning by 7 AM.
Flipboard puts all your social media in one place so you can see what's new, without having to scan
through seven different apps.
And as users personalize their magazines, all topics and publishers followed will by synched with mobile and tablet devices
through the one
Flipboard account.
If I go to
Flipboard and I'm flipping
through the content, if I go to any type of RSS reader and I'm flipping
through the content those are what the influencers are using there's going to be a large image.
China, a country where online operators are prohibited from publishing certain content, could prove challenging — after all,
Flipboard wants to be the place where users can read any content they choose, including that which passes
through their social networks.
The other products, in contrast, are distributed as apps
through app stores (in the case of
Flipboard and Zite, only on iPad; Pulse publishes for Android devices, too).
This feels a lot like
Flipboard, but it's got a number of pretty invasive ads in it, so Doogee is obviously just trying to make an extra buck
through their operating system.
The ones that I like to browse
through the most when I am looking for things to read are the Twitter iPad app, since the people I follow share some of the most interesting links out there (and they appear inside the media pane of the Twitter app), and «aggregation» - style apps such as
Flipboard and a newer Twitter - based app called Tweetmag, both of which are designed to pull in content and display it like an interactive magazine.
Visually,
Flipboard is the same since subscribers can seamlessly «flip»
through their favorite publications.
The new versions of Mac OS and iOS were already leaked
through some initial reports but there was no detail about the app called News that Apple has designed to take on
Flipboard.