The popular news-reading app adds the ability for readers to create and share personalized periodicals curated from Web content such as news stories, photos, and videos.
by Steven Musil
Flipboard, the popular news-reading app, released an update today that allows its readers to become magazine publishers, creating personalized periodicals curated from a variety of Web content from around the world.
The update features a "+" button that allows readers to save and share stories, photos, videos, and audio clips to electronic magazines that reflect their individual tastes, interests, or opinions. Flipboard suggests that the new functionality, which is also available as a Web bookmarklet called Flip It, will allow publishers to better surface archived content as well as package related stories.
"With more than 50 million users, Flipboard is used every day as a place to catch up on the things you care about," Flipboard CEO Mike McCue said in a statement. "But starting now, it's also a great place to share opinions, save favorite stories, and express your point of view. This is our biggest release ever and one that we think will open an entirely new experience for our readers."
After creating a magazine and choosing a title, curators can choose to make their magazines public and shareable or keep them private. Publishers who choose the public route can learn about their readers' interaction with the magazine through the new Flipboard Notifications tool.
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