Taptu is unlikely to win a design award-its homepage is too crammed with information, too claustrophobic: I counted 56 separate visual elements on the page when I used the app.īut News.Me doesn’t give you access to your Twitter lists. In many ways, this free offering is indistinguishable fromĪlphonso Labs’ Pulse News ( ), which which recently won anĪpple Design Award at June’s Worldwide Developers Conference. If you’re looking to combine all your information sources into one app, you’ll have to look elsewhere. One, two, or three columns per page? Do you want a simple list of headlines from a news source, or a summary of each story? Pulp is so endlessly customizable, that it might actually be your fault if you don’t like it, with one possible exception: There’s no way to import your Facebook and Twitter feeds. You select the news feeds you want to read, then choose the layout. This $5 app from Acrylic Software doesn’t try to compete with Flipboard’s magazine style, instead turning its users into newspaper designers. "The rest of the year will be really close.Pulp ( ) for example. "This gave us a way to allow users to curate themselves," says McCue.įlipboard users now "flip" news stories, tweets, photos and the like into either "magazines" they curate, or add to others, and comment freely, thus adding another way to communicate in the social media age.Įxample: This reporter's " magazine" of photos, tweets, USA TODAY articles, podcasts, guitar playing and more, McCue's kayaking, a Vox publication devoted to articles about the smartphone app TikTok or a fan magazine about jazz guitarist Pat Metheny.Īs for profits, McCue has been saying for several years that the company would eventually be profitable, and now he has a date.
Users grab content from all over the web, like a social media feed, and place them in their personal magazine, either devoted to their posts, or whatever they find on the web, and share them on the Web. But in the ensuing years, the company worried about whether Twitter's platform would remain in place to third parties like Flipboard, and so switched to a user-generated concept it calls "magazines." Flipboard was initially built on the Twitter platform, transforming tweets into a visual magazine-like format based on the personal interests of the user.
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