Flipboard (@flipboard on Twitter), the innovative social media review app for the iPad is here. Imagine being able to review all the activity on your Twitter and Facebook accounts not just the posts but a review of the content those posts link to all in an attractive easy to consume layout with a drop dead easy user interface. Well that functionality has arrived...and it is called Flipboard!
In short, it is an interactive digital magazine for your life...a magazine that updates daily even hourly!
The potential of this iPad application is enormous and Version 1 while good only hints at what this may become in the future. Right now it only interfaces with your Twitter and Facebook accounts...imagine when it can interface with your RSS feeds via Google Reader. I love three aspects of the app.
1. The ease with which you can review the content your friends, family and associates are sharing in Twitter and Facebook
2. The app provides a brief review of the content inside Flipboard with a link to the full web version but it seems to pre-load the full version in the background so if you decide to read the full version it is there instantly.
3. You can interact with the content inside the app so you can share or reply on Twitter inside Flipboard (and see who else is doing the same) or like on Facebook.
If you are a regular user of Twitter and/or Facebook then you are going to want this app. Once the app interfaces with your RSS feeds, EVERYBODY with an iPad will want this app.
It's an amazing time right now. Technology and creativity are colliding big time to create some amazing solutions.
It's almost like everyday there is something new.
ps the demand for the app is crazy at present and the company behind the app are instituting an invite system to manage the registration of your Twitter and Facebook accounts into the app. But don't don't worry they are adding extra servers to cope with the load so all will be sorted soon.
