Exclusive first look: A new kind of social media news reader: FlipBoard

[ShazamVanBane]

You like what your friends do...? Goodbye individuality, hello peer pressure 2.0 . So flipboard has rediscovered facebook! How stupid to say u like what ur friends do. Here's an idea: you just use google, just subscribe to a feed, to a website. Duh? Wow so hard to sub to recipe.c om or some blog or CNN, ugh. So dumb! This is like some program designed to blend everyone into one omelet where u learn by, "oh look what dan found, oh look what i found something too" back n forth, endless distraction

[BrisbaneMile]

geat idea but how does this make a profit to stay working and pay everyone invilved. How much is it to buy the app? is that the only way they can make money? i really dont understand how some good ideas make profit?

[MrPriceindia]

One of the reasons I am going to get an ipad 2

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[DarkenedTheater]

If ever Steve Jobs decides to step down I think Apple should hire this app creator to do their product presentations I've always wanted rss readers to have the same layout and formatting as magazines and finally...there's an app for that.

[evenios]

awsome this might make ME get an ipad too!

[BloodSpewed]

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[phototristan]

This is a great app that really takes advantage of the iPad. I wish more apps did.

[classystephen]

This is one of the best iPad apps out there. I am longer use Facebook and twitter proper. I would really like more than 9 feeds, but at the same time a limited scope makes me be selective about what choose to read...so torn, but i love it!

[jonnyboy8000]

How long till FLIP camera sues them?

[iStalkApple]

@jonnyboy8000 Cant. Just a name just like the fruit Apple cannot sue Apple the Company.

[AppJudgment]

This really makes it worth having an iPad. 

[CassettePlaya1]

Great initial concept but ultimately the content is made by your social network friends and what they post and seen as a lot of mine post things I don't really care about or spam their Facebook game stats I can seen that ruining the app for me.

[CassettePlaya1]

But really what if the content my online friends post is absolute crap, that then means I have to read it and essentially may ruin the app experience for me.

[calilifestyle151]

it need to be on android then we can talk

[HEbertKONLABS]

Great tool for iPad and social network workers!

[Electronistadotcom]

Those offices are way too posh. Don't go and blow your VC money on looks, guys...

[kioarthurdane]

They are so in love with each other.

[Boxcar101]

I'm tired of social media.

[welcomtothispage]

@Boxcar101 To be tired of "social media" is to be tyred of life.

[jt101010]

@welcomtothispage - ooooo deeeeeeep

[anonymous668]

@welcomtothispage I agree

[ShazamVanBane]

@Boxcar101 and people flocking to someone just because they sound gay, it's like, "Look a smart gay man to stand behind so that we look more intelligent and righteous!" Reminds me of how half the country flocked to Obama because he was black and sounded smart.

[1990trssho]

The guy who does the corporate commercial for Flipboard: ,is the same guy who sold me on square for the iPhone:

When I signed up for Square, I gave my SSN and other personal info.

[eaglegrafix]

What? Very dull, slow and unimaginative way to introduce a new product. 26:07? I don't think so unless you show me a reason to spend that much time watching two dudes talk on a red couch.

[albedo0point39]

No questions about privacy.

These guys take your facebook and twitter passwords. I wouldn't trust them, personally!

[chrisbeiting]

@albedo0point39 Well they use Oauth and Facebook connect so they really don't have your password, they have the authentication tokens from those sites. Your personal information isn't saved by them.

[albedo0point39]

@chrisbeiting They still have complete access to your accounts and data until you unauthorise them don't they? They're not charging for the app, so they'll have to make money of of this data - and they haven't really specified what their plans are.

I still think it's foolish to trust them with this much access.

[chrisbeiting]

@albedo0point39 Personally I'm not worried. I've worked at a startup where we used OAuth/Facebook Connect and we were extremely aware of privacy and how quick users can turn if we violated that trust. I'd assume the guys running Flipboard are stupid.

They just got about 11 million from a group of venture capitalists... generating revenue is important, but when you're burning VC money you focus on user experience. What they'll end up doing is using iAds in the app, which is no big deal.

[chrisbeiting]

@chrisbeiting sorry Flipboard guys aren't stupid... my typing on the other hand... :)

[albedo0point39]

@chrisbeiting You don't know any of that, you're just guessing.

It's your prerogative if you want to set a lower priority on personal security/privacy than me.

I've read Flipboard's privacy FAQ and was left unsatisfied.

[havaneseboy]

So for the few thousand or so "Pro" Twitter or FB folks this might be good but for the few people I follow on either twitter or FB this is over kill...I can look at tweetdeck and see linearly all that has been posted and I'm done...location based? give me a break for 98% of folks using FB or twitter we view the same info and same people no matter where we are...like I said for the Pro FB and twitter user (following 400, 500, 2000 people) this might be a good thing.

[theslack]

lol at the dude taking a photo of them

[t029248]

Love it. This might make me get an iPad.

[ShazamVanBane]

@t029248 duuuuuuur

[t029248]

@ShazamVanBane Ja iPad is duur maar gelukkig worden de Android Pad steeds beter, tzt iPad omruilen voor een ICS Samsung Pad... Maar Flipboard blijft wel cool..

[rahulm92]

meh.

[mentospowergum]

mehhh...