Jeff Sonderman
Mar. 27, 2013
2:10 pm
Inside Flipboard | All Things D | Giga Om
If you wanted to draw up a plan for drastically remaking the landscape of mobile news discovery, it might look something like this: 1) Release a beautiful news aggregating app that attracts 50 million readers, then 2) Empower those readers as curators who can create thousands of hand-picked digital magazines.
Flipboard, one of the most popular news-reading mobile apps, has just done that. It is shifting its focus toward empowering users to create their own curated "magazines" for others to read.
"Now everyone can be a reader
and an editor," a
company blog post says.
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Jeff Sonderman
June 25, 2012
12:36 pm
As of Thursday, New York Times subscribers can access the news organization’s content from within Flipboard, the aggregated magazine app for iPads and smartphones.
That’s news — even if you don’t subscribe to the Times. Here’s why.
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Julie Moos
Dec. 9, 2011
8:46 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 7, 2011
12:01 am
The most popular news aggregation app for the iPad launches a new iPhone version Wednesday. Flipboard’s redesign for the smaller screen offers lessons in how publishers should tailor apps for the different needs of tablet and smartphone owners.
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Jeff Sonderman
Sep. 16, 2011
10:50 am
AllThingsD |
Robert Scoble
Google is working on a news reading app for tablets that will compete with Flipboard, according to reports. This comes after Google tried unsuccessfully to acquire Flipboard last year.
Robert Scoble says his source has seen versions that are "
mind-blowing good.” Kara Swisher reports that the Google project is called "
Propeller," though it's not clear if that is a code name or will be the actual brand at launch.
Other than that, there are few details reported. Here are some important things to watch for:
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Julie Moos
Sep. 14, 2011
4:22 pm
Nieman Journalism Lab
Megan Garber reports that News.me is going from a paid personalized iPad aggregation app to a free service, opting for “more scale than what a paid-content strategy could offer.”
“The app will still focus on creating a good reading experience; it will still focus on aggregating content from a wide variety of sources. And, speaking of, nothing’s really changing about News.me’s relationship with the publishers whose content it’s licensed.”
News.me’s relationship with publishers is
what distinguished it, in large part, from similar services Trove, Ongo, Flipboard and Zite.
Here’s a brief timeline of News.me and the other big personalized aggregation news services:
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Jeff Sonderman
July 25, 2011
11:22 am
PaidContent
Condé Nast is working with the popular iPad reader app Flipboard to sell advertisements that will appear within New Yorker magazine articles viewed in the app. This marks the first paid advertising in Flipboard, which has been running some free ads from select partners for months during its Flipboard Pages
trial period. Publishers participating in Flipboard Pages allow their entire articles to be reformatted and displayed within the Flipboard app, with the goal of eventually selling full-screen ads between some of the pages. PaidContent reports that Condé Nast and Flipboard will share revenue from the ads, and that Wired, Bon Appétit and other magazines will get Flipboard advertising later this year.
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Jeff Sonderman
June 30, 2011
11:48 am
ReadWriteWebFlipboard, the most popular iPad app for browsing multiple news sources, was updated Thursday with features that drive more attention to individual newspaper and magazine sections. First-time users now start with a content guide to well-known websites, rather than being asked to set up their own social networks and feeds first. The app has a search function to find new content sources and now integrates with LinkedIn for industry news. Perhaps most interesting, though, is what will come in the next version of the app. Flipboard CEO Mike McCue
told ReadWriteWeb that the product will include personalization and recommendation tools, which will help it compete with iPad aggregators like Zite and News.me. ||
Related: Apps, websites personalize news delivery through social data. ||
Next: A
Flipboard iPhone app is due this summer.
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Jeff Sonderman
May 26, 2011
3:29 pm
Flipboard’s partnerships with news publishers continue to expand, with the addition of National Geographic content as soon as Friday, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue said in a phone interview Thursday.
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Damon Kiesow
Apr. 11, 2011
7:09 am
Microsoft’s new Bing iPad app, released Thursday, does more than search — it begins to remake the newspaper experience in digital form.
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