Flipboard Launched Full Web Version Of Its Magazine App

To all the readers out there, there’s good news in store for you. Flipboard has traded its signature flipping pages for a fully functional, user-friendly web interface. The web interface will have a plethora of content to offer to its readers which can be accessed here www.flipboard.com

Founded in 2010, Flipboard is a social magazine application for Apple’s iPad tablet computer. The app collects content from social networks and other websites and then presents them in the format of a magazine. The California based company’s app allows its users to flip through the feeds from their social networking sites and other websites that have partnered with the company.

Flipboard unveiled the full version of its magazine aggregated application on the web earlier this week. The new interface is extremely sleek and looks like an interesting mix between Pinterest and Medium.

The magazine like reading platform has had a web version since the mid 2013, but back then, it was more of a placeholder than a fully functional web application. The older version didn’t allow users to log in and get access to their magazine collections. It also had the signature flipping pages of its mobile application, which offered a clumsy experience on the web.



The new web version is completely different from the older version. Rather than flipping pages, the new version has content in modules containing headline, pictures and a leading sentence.  The Hipster by Gus Gostyla, Designica by Flipboard’s CEO Mike McCue and The Explorer by Leland Melvin are some of the examples that show off Flipboard’s new visual capabilities.

The magazine like platform has had some web magazines out on the web earlier too, but the readers would often jump off the pages while flipping pages as it didn’t give them a natural experience of reading a magazine. Flipboard 3.0, which was launched in October last year, focused on creating a product that is native to the web.

Currently, Flipboard has some 50 million active monthly readers who have access to about 15 million individual magazines. The figure has gone up by 5 million since the launch of Flipboard 3.0.

In order to provide a richer experience to its user on the web, Flipboard has added a section called “Explore” for content discovery on the web.  Flipboard has an aim of growing its audience to over 100 million active readers and the web version will only help the company in achieving that.

Flipboard Launched Full Web Version Of Its Magazine App

To all the readers out there, there’s good news in store for you. Flipboard has traded its signature flipping pages for a fully functional, user-friendly web interface. The web interface will have a plethora of content to offer to its readers which can be accessed here www.flipboard.com

Founded in 2010, Flipboard is a social magazine application for Apple’s iPad tablet computer. The app collects content from social networks and other websites and then presents them in the format of a magazine. The California based company’s app allows its users to flip through the feeds from their social networking sites and other websites that have partnered with the company.

Flipboard unveiled the full version of its magazine aggregated application on the web earlier this week. The new interface is extremely sleek and looks like an interesting mix between Pinterest and Medium.

The magazine like reading platform has had a web version since the mid 2013, but back then, it was more of a placeholder than a fully functional web application. The older version didn’t allow users to log in and get access to their magazine collections. It also had the signature flipping pages of its mobile application, which offered a clumsy experience on the web.



The new web version is completely different from the older version. Rather than flipping pages, the new version has content in modules containing headline, pictures and a leading sentence.  The Hipster by Gus Gostyla, Designica by Flipboard’s CEO Mike McCue and The Explorer by Leland Melvin are some of the examples that show off Flipboard’s new visual capabilities.

The magazine like platform has had some web magazines out on the web earlier too, but the readers would often jump off the pages while flipping pages as it didn’t give them a natural experience of reading a magazine. Flipboard 3.0, which was launched in October last year, focused on creating a product that is native to the web.

Currently, Flipboard has some 50 million active monthly readers who have access to about 15 million individual magazines. The figure has gone up by 5 million since the launch of Flipboard 3.0.

In order to provide a richer experience to its user on the web, Flipboard has added a section called “Explore” for content discovery on the web.  Flipboard has an aim of growing its audience to over 100 million active readers and the web version will only help the company in achieving that.

Patterbuzz - Discover premium content & pay only for what you read

There are millions of blogs to read and hundreds of apps distributing content. They are just pieces of individual opinions and news mongering without any expert backing. People are sharing content everywhere but no one thinks about the authenticity of the content. Bangalore based Patterbuzz started with a principle in mind. "There is enough authentic content from Indian authors/writers in the world. It needs to reach people in the way they want it and on all their devices with the best reading experience. We believe that well written articles are created after painstaking research and numerous cups of coffee and sleepless nights. And this is why the journalists and authors deserve their due," says the founder Amit. Patterbuzz separates premium and exclusive content from the noise.

[caption id="attachment_94269" align="alignleft" width="194"] Amit Goel, Founder - PatterBuzz[/caption]

Amit came up with the idea in early 2012. Patterbuzz is the first platform in India to enable micropayments in content. It lets you buy a cover story for as low as Rs 2/- as opposed to buy a magazine for Rs 100/- and you can buy it by just sending an SMS. There is no such platform which unbundles the content and lets people chose on what they want. "Patterbuzz enables content discovery much better. Users discover content over the internet. In our iPAD app, People just select the type of content they wish to read and we curate the content 'editorially and algorithmically' for better content consumption experience," adds Amit.

They make sure that the content is authentic by partnering with the publishers. All the magazines and articles from various publishers on our platform are published after partnerships are completed. With their Android app recently launched on google play and already have an iOS App, Patterbuzz will now allow all the android users across the world to get the taste of original Indian content. "Our platform is growing and many more well-known magazines and authors are going to join Patterbuzz in next 3 months. Our focus is to get the best available content from India for users across the world," he adds.

[caption id="attachment_94270" align="aligncenter" width="700"] PatterBuzz iPad App[/caption]

Patterbuzz wants people to read the best of information from the original and authentic sources. Their team of 7 people working from Bangalore are working together to make Patterbuzz vision realize and let people get they wish to read. The content can be bought from their website as well.

As a message for future entrepreneurs, Amit says "If you want to make a difference to people’s lives, give a few years to do it. Might be a few years for you, but it can change their whole life."