I recently downloaded Flipboard on recommendation from a friend. Flipboard is a mobile app, that essentially congregates different stories from different topics into one app.
While this isn't exactly what the app looks like anymore (there was an app update yesterday), this gives good overview. There are five tabs on the bottom of the page. The first one is just an endless list of articles that are concatenated from all the topics that you follow. You can flip to see more articles (hence the name, Flipboard), and then click on any one to read more.
The second tab is a grid layout, with different tiles. Each "tile" represents one topic, and clicking on a tile will bring up all articles that fall under that topic. The third tab allows you to search and add more topics to the second tab, while the last two tabs have to do with your account.
There are a few things that I really like about Flipboard - my favorite being the interface. It is an incredibly clean one - the grid is very clear, and the flipping motion is incredibly intuitive, and also easier than having a continuous scroll layout to articles. Also, Flipboard is really clever in the sense that if it notices that there's a link that's an article that is saved to your clipboard (let's say you were copying an article link to send to a friend in an email), it'll automatically ask you if you want to add it to one of your magazines when you open the app.
Which brings me to the second reason that I like the app - you have the ability to not only create magazines, but also add contributors to your magazine so multiple people can add to your collection of articles. This is a great way to not only keep track of articles that you like, but also a way to share articles between a group of friends.
All in all, great app!
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