Recently, the team has updated Flipboard iPad-version. The main novelty - is the emergence of a new section (or magazine column) - Cover Stories. Now the program has become almost perfect.
Recently, I completely stopped using RSS-aggregators. Ultimately just conceded defeat: it is impossible to read everything that is written publication, in which you at one time subscribed. Even limiting the number of subscriptions (remove the media and all the blogs that are updated more than 10 times per day), I did not come close to nirvana.
Most RSS-aggregators also psychologically crushes, informing about the number of unread posts. All the time think about it, and if anything missed important?
When there was Flipboard, I almost immediately it moved. The program successfully captures the feel of a glossy magazine. You just flipping quality made edition, the content of which "fills" your Friend on social networks. This is a really valuable feature: you read what friends recommend. They are the kind of "filters" which select all the best and interesting for you, leaving behind information noise.
A new feature Flipboard - Cover Stories - this is another step towards more accurate personalization. Now the service is not just shows that your friends have advised (on which articles they give links), but also selects the most interesting of the recommended materials. In this article we are not presented with a single channel (eg, Twitter), and all.
The developers did not disclose the details of how to construct personalization. Note only that in time algorithms are beginning to work more accurately and reading a magazine becomes more interesting.
Cover Story feature very nicely implemented - excellent typography, cool pictures embedded. The application itself has become much faster. Supported by the Russian-language sources (ZiteFor example, until now only limited to the recommendations of the English-speaking vebu), which is also important.
Cover Story In addition to the new version of Flipboard offers improved page design. Pictures and text look very nice.
Flipboard launched its international expansion: there were content guides for the UK and Ireland, Canada, Australia, France, Hong Kong and Taiwan. France, by the way, received also the localized version. You'll see, someday turn and come to Russia.
Flipboard (link to the page in the App Store)