Bloggers in general read a lot of stuff. A LOT. When we’re not reading other blogs, we’re flicking through Google+, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, or have our noses in a good old’ fashioned book. It can all get a bit overwhelming at times.
This is one of the reasons I adore the Flipboard app. It’s an iPhone, iPad and Android app that collates all the content from your various social accounts, and puts them together in a flippable magazine format. I’ve written about Flipboard a few times in the past, so I won’t go into too much detail.
There have been two interesting developments with app this week. They’ve added Google+ and YouTube functions, so you can view both within the magazine format. I’ve been hoping they’d add YouTube for a while, but Google+ is a real catch for them – Hootsuite and Tweetdeck are still waiting to add that to their streams, so it’s impressive for a relatively new company to land such an opportunity. It’s a smart move by Google too. Interaction levels are low on the network, but targeting a group of switched on social media types, like Flipboard users, could be key to getting things moving again.
Are you a Flipboard fan? What do you think about these two new additions?
p.s I seem to be having some problems with YouTube on there at the moment, but they’re usually pretty quick to iron out any bugs.
Ooh love your little updates. Only just heard about this. Bet i cant get it on playbook! Lol
Aw thank you! It really is life changing (and I’ve checked and it seems to be available on playbook :D) http://goodereader.com/blog/tablet-slates/flipboard-for-android-and-playbook-released/