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As someone about to get into this space, I didn't realize that personalized reading was heating up so good. I suppose that competition is a good thing, and of

by bmelton 16y ago

As someone about to get into this space, I didn't realize that personalized reading was heating up so good. I suppose that competition is a good thing, and of all the apps listed in the article (Flipboard, Zinio, Pulse), I think that using the web as a platform is a competitive advantage for us, but damn. How is this the first I've heard of this? If this is seen as too self-serving, feel free to mod down, but I have to ask, does anybody else use Pulse, or the apps mentioned? What do you like/dislike about them?

hackoder 16y ago
Flipboard is pretty good. I've also used 'Early Edition' which fetches your RSS feed into a newspaper like view. Again, its a really nice option for reading RSS feeds. Now I just pick up my iPad and flip through the first few pages of news rather than always trying to bring the Unread count to 0 on Google Reader.
- bigiain 16y ago
  Seconded. Flipboard is directly responsible for me spending ~$20/month less on magazines. There's a local (motorcycle) magazine which I've bought every (2 weekly) issue for ~12 years, which I haven't bought a single copy of since I installed Flipboard. All the "I've got 10 or 15 minutes spare in a cafe lingering over a coffee or two" reading needs are better met by Flipboard (for me) than AMCN Two Wheels and New Scientist and various other magazines I'd occasionally buy to fill in time. I don't think it's "the future of print media", but I think it's certainly indicative of one direction the future of print media might lie...
- dan00 16y ago
  For me it's, like almost everything on the iPad, to distracting. For reading rss feeds I like calibres news feature in conjunction with an eReader.
geekfactor 16y ago
Zinio seems the odd-man-out in that trio. Unless they've made major changes recently, it's PDF for magazines, at least from the end-user perspective. Nothing so personalized about that.

by bmelton 16y ago

hackoder 16y ago

Flipboard is pretty good. I've also used 'Early Edition' which fetches your RSS feed into a newspaper like view. Again, its a really nice option for reading RSS feeds. Now I just pick up my iPad and flip through the first few pages of news rather than always trying to bring the Unread count to 0 on Google Reader.

bigiain 16y ago
Seconded. Flipboard is directly responsible for me spending ~$20/month less on magazines. There's a local (motorcycle) magazine which I've bought every (2 weekly) issue for ~12 years, which I haven't bought a single copy of since I installed Flipboard. All the "I've got 10 or 15 minutes spare in a cafe lingering over a coffee or two" reading needs are better met by Flipboard (for me) than AMCN Two Wheels and New Scientist and various other magazines I'd occasionally buy to fill in time. I don't think it's "the future of print media", but I think it's certainly indicative of one direction the future of print media might lie...
dan00 16y ago
For me it's, like almost everything on the iPad, to distracting. For reading rss feeds I like calibres news feature in conjunction with an eReader.

geekfactor 16y ago

Zinio seems the odd-man-out in that trio. Unless they've made major changes recently, it's PDF for magazines, at least from the end-user perspective. Nothing so personalized about that.