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Flipboard’s Mike McCue on the Last 36 Hours, What’s Next and What's Coming Soon

12 points by quant 16y ago

slantyyz 16y ago
I'm curious to know what they're doing on the back end beyond the fact they're using Amazon to host the infrastructure.
- izendejas 16y ago
  They running some version of arc90's readability to extract articles and display them nicely. http://twitter.com/arc90/status/19079131365 http://twitter.com/arc90/status/19079131365
  - tzm 16y ago
    I developed a RESTful API that runs Readability on the server. It's currently private, but with enough developer interest I may open it up.
extension 16y ago
What we’re been trying to do is set it up so that the content we’re displaying is just a portion of what they are publishing. We just give people an excerpt. This is what killed my initial buzz for this thing. To be useful to me, a media consumption tool has to either provide a nice way to read complete articles or an efficient way to aggregate/filter large numbers of articles. Flipboard fails at the former by forcing a complete context switch half way through the article. It fails at the latter by trying to be the former. Asking for Facebook and Twitter logins without any apparent need or explanation was also a deal breaker. The excitement for this product was justified. The iPad reading experience is pretty fragmented and leaves a craving for some sort of universal reader like this, but Flipboard hasn't got it right.
WestCoastJustin 16y ago
If you look at these reviews people don't seem happy.. guess this is what the ceo reply is meant to respond to? http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8 http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8 Customer Reviews Will be great? by dlbdlb At present, not connecting to my Twitter and fb accounts. Problem with the instant popularity? Buggy by Chakri Current version is buggy. Can't login into FaceBook. Every attempt throws an over the capacity exception. So Awesome! by katzilla349 Refuses to add any of the content I attempt to add. Way Cool! And why is it that I can't copy and paste most of the text (and who knows what else)? I'm growing weary of digital media that doesn't leverage the advantages of being DIGITAL! Thanks for wasting my time with that one guys!
smiler 16y ago
You wonder if Apple will take notice of this app and decide to come up with their own app and have it on iOS by default - they'll then be able to get the tie in with the content publishers as the 'official' application. I could then see Apple launching subscription 'bundles' for content or sharing the ad revenue with publishers. They could then remove flipboard from the app store as it duplicates functionality :) Does that sound feasible?
- jamesshamenski 16y ago
  Truth: Steve Jobs came in for a demo before launch. Sidenote: It sounds like apple has you paranoid.

12 points by quant 16y ago

slantyyz 16y ago

I'm curious to know what they're doing on the back end beyond the fact they're using Amazon to host the infrastructure.

izendejas 16y ago
They running some version of arc90's readability to extract articles and display them nicely. http://twitter.com/arc90/status/19079131365 http://twitter.com/arc90/status/19079131365
- tzm 16y ago
  I developed a RESTful API that runs Readability on the server. It's currently private, but with enough developer interest I may open it up.

extension 16y ago

What we’re been trying to do is set it up so that the content we’re displaying is just a portion of what they are publishing. We just give people an excerpt. This is what killed my initial buzz for this thing. To be useful to me, a media consumption tool has to either provide a nice way to read complete articles or an efficient way to aggregate/filter large numbers of articles. Flipboard fails at the former by forcing a complete context switch half way through the article. It fails at the latter by trying to be the former. Asking for Facebook and Twitter logins without any apparent need or explanation was also a deal breaker. The excitement for this product was justified. The iPad reading experience is pretty fragmented and leaves a craving for some sort of universal reader like this, but Flipboard hasn't got it right.

WestCoastJustin 16y ago

If you look at these reviews people don't seem happy.. guess this is what the ceo reply is meant to respond to? http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8 http://ax.itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8 Customer Reviews Will be great? by dlbdlb At present, not connecting to my Twitter and fb accounts. Problem with the instant popularity? Buggy by Chakri Current version is buggy. Can't login into FaceBook. Every attempt throws an over the capacity exception. So Awesome! by katzilla349 Refuses to add any of the content I attempt to add. Way Cool! And why is it that I can't copy and paste most of the text (and who knows what else)? I'm growing weary of digital media that doesn't leverage the advantages of being DIGITAL! Thanks for wasting my time with that one guys!

smiler 16y ago

You wonder if Apple will take notice of this app and decide to come up with their own app and have it on iOS by default - they'll then be able to get the tie in with the content publishers as the 'official' application. I could then see Apple launching subscription 'bundles' for content or sharing the ad revenue with publishers. They could then remove flipboard from the app store as it duplicates functionality :) Does that sound feasible?

jamesshamenski 16y ago
Truth: Steve Jobs came in for a demo before launch. Sidenote: It sounds like apple has you paranoid.