Flipboard iPad App

I saw a post on Mashable Facebook feed yesterday about this new iPad app that lets you browse your social media like a magazine. What the?! I clicked but got sidetracked by work until later in the day when I downloaded it, but it took me till the evening to get time to play with it. The Twitter portion was the only bit that's working on my version but this morning I'm unable to view anything due to excessive connections. Normally that would piss off any potential app user, but I and millions of others are eagerly standing by awaiting the server upgrades that are apparently taking place right now.

http://www.flipboard.com/

From what I got to see last night this app basically scrapes the data from Twitter and apparently Facebook and some blogs. You can add other services in there but only from those listed in their directory, which was a bit limited when I looked. Will it be possible to add any blog to the feed? Will we be able to submit our own blogs or websites? How does the data get scraped?

All these questions will be answered soon I'm sure, in a paid app! But in the meantime ... in the 10 minutes it has taken me to type this blog there are 235 new twitter posts featuring the word 'flipboard' ...



And as I finish this post, the Facebook part of the feed is working! I'm off to play with my flipboard ...