Flipboard and disadvantages! [Program for the iPad]

The other day we had a review of the RSS-reader, and in the screens of our iPad-s knocking another deliveryman news and Twitter name him in the face of Flipboard. Many resources have already have their own Twitter feeds, koi inform readers about news or supplement the basic tape useful links and messages, there are such, and we @macradar. Sign up and learn a lot more :)

As we are assured developers, Flipboard - it is a social magazine retracting a picture of friends from Facebook and Twitter. At first glance, it strongly resembles Pulse News ReaderBut this is only a superficial resemblance. The absorption of the content in Flipboard takes place differently, because the source is fundamentally different from RSS feeds.

View log starting with the cover. On it randomly displays the messages that have content in your image. All this is accompanied by a shift effects and increase that makes a living picture. At the bottom is the band «Recent contributors», to move through the news stream. In fact, the cover is not casual, as the user will enjoy all these beauties will have time to load most of the news. Turn the page and get into the navigation menu.

Below is a screenshot of a freshly installed program from it becomes clear, Flipboard has two specialized cell, one for your Twitter, FaceBook account to another. The remaining seven cells are given to the user, he can fill them to your taste by removing the standard channels using the Edit button. Thus, the accounts are connected, and you can start using social magazine.

Flipboard Inc uses a script to handle the content on their servers and transfer it to the client program. Indeed, all this looks like a glossy magazine. Nice layout style, and unmatched overall image Pearl your friends. Add to this the ability to write reviews, add news to the Favorites Twitter or send the link via e-mail. Yes no next log is not standing with the razvlekuhoy!

Yet Flipboard has its limitations. First of all, it is not a means of communication. You can add your opinion about the record, share their impressions, but the answer will not be able to receive. Social magazine will not replace your Twitter client, and does not complement it. In addition, these Twitter functions as browse other people's profiles and follow new man (Follow on Twitter) are displayed in the browser window - it is at least yesterday.

Okay, so be it. As sotszhurnal Flipboard in some places it is not enough focused on communication. It is possible to forgive, it is even possible to correct. But the visual side just lame. All these pictures published on Twitter, often are not big enough size and look awful on the iPad screen, added to this is not always the correct image scaling.

Go ahead, Flipboard filters out the text from it thrown links. For example, in this review we present links to additional materials in the amount of five pieces, but you will not see them, this information will be lost to you forever. Complementing all this - cutting tags and meta-data that may not be noticeable to most readers, but it will be an unpleasant surprise for some. The highlight is some problem with the encoding, occurring here and there.

The ability to access hidden information by processing the content of the resource by using your own script for the aggregation, someone please, but not the content owners. This situation is more likely to lead to actions to Flipboard Inc., than to conclude profitable contracts. With reflections on the theme of legality can be found Flipboard here (Rus.) and here (Eng.)

Flipboard is an interesting idea, embodied in the code. The app has a lot of potential, a new look at the social media, the ability to attract more people into the social network and make activities easier and more understandable. At the same time, Flipboard is not able to replace the browser to open a Facebook page or a full tviterr client, this is its main disadvantage.

application page in AppStore (free)