App of the Day: Flipboard for iPad [Video]

Apple named Flipboard the most effective iPad app of the year, but its developers aren’t resting on their laurels. Flipboard 1.1 brings a slew of updates, including support for Google Reader, Flickr, and new easy methods to interact with Twitter and Facebook.

What is it?

Flipboard, iPad, Free . Flipboard’s been celebrated as some of the iPad’s finest apps, and deservedly so-it does an amazing job of taking the torrent of text links that occupy our Facebook and Twitter feeds and arranging them into a lovely little pseudo magazine. The brand new Flipboard update crunches and beautifies even more content-a small but cool stable of web sites (Uncrate, Williams-Sonoma, All Things Digital, Washington Post Magazine, etc), RSS feeds via Google Reader, Flickr, and individual facets of Twitter and Facebook (@replies, Twitter lists; Facebook groups, photos for your feed, videos on your feed, etc.). The update also brings the power to compose Tweets and Facebook updates from inside the app, supplying you with less reason to depart than ever.

Who’s it good for?

People who want the meat of their social media displayed in a far prettier format; those that don’t freak out after they don’t see every Tweet; those who would like to keep up with what their friends are sharing without actually visting Facebook.

Why’s it better than alternatives?

For wrapping your Facebook and Twitter feeds up in a beautiful outfit, there’s nothing that comes close. And it’s free! Ugh, it’s great.

How could or not it’s even better?

I guess it’d be nice to have more individual sites to select from, however it’s kinda hard to search out things to complain about.

You could grab Flipboard within the App Store for freeeee.

We’re always searching for cool apps-for iOS, Android, Windows Phone or whatever else-to feature as App of the Day (yes, apps for other platforms will start doping up soon!) When you stumble upon one you watched we must always examine, please let us know.

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Video music: Kevin MacLeod

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