Flipboard - Fully Intergrated Social News Medium

I was going around through the internet highway looking for news and realized that I had to open several applications to get news from friends via twitter and facebook and then go through other application for news both local and abroad. I then had to go through different applications for my favorite lifestyle topics, another for recipes, and so on... It was quite taxing to go to one application and then the next, irregardless of being able to save all of them in a particular folder. I though could there be an application that is out now in the Android and IOS market that I can use which incorporates all of my Social News and Other Info Medium? I eventually came across several recommendations such as the use of Pulse News and TED which in more ways than one answered my needs. But I had to admit, the way things were layed out wasn't eye catching found myself back to my old habits of going through each application instead of using those mentioned above. It wasn't until after a few months after that I found out of an application that arranged news in such a way that resembles the Live Tiles of MS Windows 7.5 and 8 Phones - Flipboard.

I was a bit skeptical at first, cause of my experience with the other two applications that tried to answer my need for all sorts of news and information from several different mediums. Flipboard, once I had started setting it up initially, gave me a natural feeling to technology. The setup was smooth and easy, no boring advertisements, no need to sign up for anything, no unnecessary advertisement, just news and the way I wanted it. Tiled conveniently and what was even more delightful to find out was that it was so easy to arrange each news tile according to what you feel is suitable for you with just the same way one would arrange icons on their smartphones - hold and drag to desired position. You can even "x" the tiles you dont want or seemingly dont need.

Initially one would be given an opportunity to pick the top categories of the topics you would want preloaded in your flipboard(name most likely comes from the fact that you flip through the stories like an actual flipboard, but in this case digital style). You also have the power to search for other contents and news providers and/or encode the rss feed of your favorite news topic source and viola - its in your flipboard.

Here is a summary of what they have to offer based on what the developers of Flipboard

Accolades:
- Webby Award Winner in News and Social categories, as well as People’s Voice Award (2011, 2012)
- WIRED magazine Essential App (2011)
- TechCrunch Cruchies—Best Touch Interface (2011)
- Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism (2011)
- TIME Magazine 50 Best Inventions (2010)

Highlights:

★ Be amazed by what you see when everything people are sharing, collecting and publishing in every moment comes together in a single place.

★ Search for anything—people, topics, hashtags, blogs, your favorite sites—and flip through articles, updates, photos and videos in a beautiful magazine format.

★ Connect Flipboard to 12 social networks, streamlining your reading and activities like commenting, liking and sharing. Services include Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, Google Reader, LinkedIn, Flickr, 500px, Sina Weibo and Renren.

★ Get a quick dose of what’s happening now, in Cover Stories, a constantly updated selection of articles, photos and videos shared by your friends.

★ Save anything to read later using Instapaper, Pocket and Readability.

★ Create a Flipboard account to access your favorite content and social networks on different or shared devices.

★ Enjoy Flipboard in 14 localized editions—for Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, U.S. and U.K.

★ Explore hundreds of staff picks in the Content Guide, including must-read magazines and blogs, gorgeous photography and special curated sections devoted to the news of the day and other topics of interest.

★ Access Flipboard quickly through the widget.

Connect with us: Visit us at http://www.flipboard.com or email us at support@flipboard.com. Follow us at @flipboard on Twitter or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/flipboard.

WIth all that said, one can only truly understand the beauty of the application unless you get hands on experience with it. You can download flipboard in both apple store (availbale for iphone and ipad) and for Android under the play.google.com application and site. Its free for all to download with no hooks added. 

For android here is the link to Flipboard

Till the next time...