Flipboard Turns Twitter Into Your Own Magazine

"This tiny company (19 employees)"<p>"Flipboard has raised $10.5 million"<p>"Flipboard hasn’t worked out a business model yet"<p>From what I saw of Flipboard, it looks very nice. But these numbers seem pretty high for an iPad app.<p>Inherently, an app/service like this doesn't have any network effect, any "virality" besides literal word-of-mouth (you using it doesn't make me know you're using it, unlike services like Twitpic let's say: when you post a picture, it makes me aware of Twitpic) and can be replaced instantly without me losing anything.<p>Again, the app looks great and it got a fantastic start. But I'm curious how it will pan out in the coming months.

While I <i>like</i> Flipboard, I have to admit: I still use Instapaper much more. And, yes, I think they are comparable.

I thought that name sounded familiar - Evan Doll used to teach the iPhone class @Stanford (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/education/edlife/18IT-t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/education/edlife/18IT-t.ht...</a>). Sounds like the company has some smarts to make it.

Isn't this essentially scrapping content from other web sites with out their permission, removing all the ads, and then presenting them in a nice way. I always assumed this was not allowed?

I got my iPad over the weekend. And this was one of the first apps I installed. So far I have been loving it. Currently you can only have 9 sources. Maybe they will charge for having more than 9 sources or maybe they are trying to keep the ui nice and simple, since Evan Doll is a former apple employee and instructor for the iPhone classes at Stanford.

<i>After using it for a few days, I’ve concluded that Flipboard is designed for people that want to “read” but are annoyed with words getting in the way.<p>That sounds insulting but it’s actually a rather brilliant insight.</i> — <a href="http://trenchant.org/daily/2010/8/5/" rel="nofollow">http://trenchant.org/daily/2010/8/5/</a>

Actually, it doesn't. Yet.

Wow, this is old news. I am using Flipboard for two weeks now.