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Flipboard - A Social Magazine App for iPad
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Giving somone your Facebook and Twitter credentials isn't the most insecure thing in the world, but given that most people will reuse them (at work, at their bank, etc.) services like this invite disaster.
What happens if their servers are hacked? What happens if they accidentally publish the credentials? What if someone has a copy of part of the database on a development laptop and the laptop is stolen? etc.
What happens if their servers are hacked? What happens if they accidentally publish the credentials? What if someone has a copy of part of the database on a development laptop and the laptop is stolen? etc.
What if anything goes wrong with anything?...Relax
Regarding this app and its ilk, everyone just needs to be mindful of when and what they put 'out there' and how frequently to minimize exposures of an ill kind.
I suspect they will update to include iAd.
But, iAd requires iOS 4. The iPad currently runs iOS 3.2. There won't be an iOS 4 update for the iPad until the fall-- a developer version is not, yet, available. (I really, really wish it were).
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What if anything goes wrong with anything?...Relax
You know nothing about this company or what they plan to do with your data. There's no way you can be sure of this.
Dude. I love the Aphex Twin playing in the background. These guys sure know how to make a video. (;
I picked option B and have always been anonymous. And the app doesn't access all friends' data, just their photos. No big deal.
I frankly don't give a damn about Facebook's conditions. Their "privacy" settings have always been a big question mark anyway: if they don't like the way I'm using their service, they're free to delete me any time they want. I promise not to lose any sleep over it.
Yup. With the exception of the early version of Shazam on the iPhone - nothing worthwhile is truly "free" anyway.
Wow, how ungrateful are you? Why don't you do something about this apparent saturation rather than just bitching about a free app?
Still though, it beats an actual magazine in that respect (in my opinion). Last time I purchased one it cost £3.60 and had many adverts.
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The co-founder is Evan Doll. If you find Gossip filtering in a pretty view productive, more power to you. As a mechanical engineer who worked at NeXT and Apple I find it a waste of time and non-productive.
This would have been a prototype demo when I worked there not a finished product.
Q - while acknowledging the site's non-involvement with this product, there does seem to have been a step up in the number of iPhone/iPad app stories in the last week. Does this mark a change of focus/direction?
Some potential here but app is half baked at best and clunky.
Embarrassed for all the pundits falling over themselves to fuel the hype machine. Laughable.
Doubt anyone will still be using this app in a year, but someone else may take what is good and do something decent with it.
Embarrassed for all the pundits falling over themselves to fuel the hype machine. Laughable.
Doubt anyone will still be using this app in a year, but someone else may take what is good and do something decent with it.
I'm not using either (because they won't connect) and was able to get all of the tech news that I usually like to read on Google Reader. I would say just try it out, don't worry about the Twitter/FB integration. See if you like it.
I did notice that nearly every tech news site I read has a post about Flipboard today -- guess they're getting some really good press.
I did notice that nearly every tech news site I read has a post about Flipboard today -- guess they're getting some really good press.
I am not that big of a fan of rss/NPR/iPad based magazines etc. I have the old school habit of just using safari for my news.
That being said, Flipboard for iPad is a MUST HAVE news app.
Still waiting to see what the Facebook and Twitter integration will be like but this is already one of my favorite apps for the iPad.
That being said, Flipboard for iPad is a MUST HAVE news app.
Still waiting to see what the Facebook and Twitter integration will be like but this is already one of my favorite apps for the iPad.
Oh noes, the big companies want to know what you ate for dinner!!! Who cares if they collect data on you? You're all so ridiculous.
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Would be good if you could add your own sites like MR. You can with pulse.
I'd say pulse is much better though it did cost money.
Would be good if you could add your own sites like MR. You can with pulse.
I'd say pulse is much better though it did cost money.
This seems the most useful for people who use social networks to get all their news instead of rss. In other words, it isn't targeting a lot of people who would read this forum.
The overall look and feel seems nice, and the page transitions I like a lot, but what lets it down for me right now is the complete failure of it to allow me to read a full article without going to the original website, which kind of defeats the point of aggregating feeds in a magazine form imo. There's been a few articles where I've had to visit the original site to read literally the last 2 or 3 lines of an article. It'd be really nice to see that fixed. It would also be nice to have some degree of control over font families, colour and sizes.