MyTweetMag - A link-streaming and news-curation-plattform for Twitter. Real-Time News Curation Tools | Fuseworks New Zealand. Newser | Headline News Summaries, World News, Breaking News, and Local News. Ongo: Aggregation So Good, You’ll Pay for It. (Maybe.) - Jeff Bercovici - Mixed Media. Social Content Curator Paper.li Picks Up US$2.1 million in Funding. The ability to curate social media content from the likes of Twitter and Facebook into an online newspaper seems to be a big hit with investors as Paper.li picks up US$ 2.1 million in funding for their efforts. A Social Media Newspaper While sifting through the social media streams can be daunting and at times complex, Paper.li has found that by aggregating social content and presenting it into an easily readable newspaper format is just the solution. “Our baseline: everybody is a publisher,” said Edouard Lambelet, co-founder and CEO of SmallRivers, the company that produces Paper.li.
In just six months since its inception, Paper.li has gathered two million unique users, published 150,000 “papers” and operates in 200 different countries under four languages. The company was also one of three startups that won the award at LeWeb, the biggest international tech conference, last December. New Funding, Lots of Expansion. Pulse Becomes One Of The Best Ways To Browse Facebook On The iPad. It’s perplexing to me that Facebook still hasn’t released an iPad app. And recent comments from the company suggest that they’re in no hurry to. Because of this, apps like Friendly have risen that wrap Facebook’s touch site in a cocoa skin and sell it for $0.99.
They’ve undoubtedly made a killing doing that. Now the popular visual RSS reader, Pulse, is about to add Facebook support as well. Luckily, they’re doing it for free. And it’s fantastic. To be clear, Pulse has not made a full-fledged Facebook client for the iPad. The latest Pulse update, 2.1, which just went live in the App Store for the iPad, has three key Facebook features: Shared Links, Status Updates, and My Wall. Facebook and Twitter have been two of the most requested features that Pulse users have been asking for, co-founder Akshay Kothari tells us.
And this is a big move for Pulse because it represents one of the first big moves for them away from RSS. “But it has to be both,” Kothari continues. Genieo - A Newspaper Styled Homepage | Start Page | RSS Reader. Sobees Launches iPad App NewsMix, A Socially Curated Digital Magazine.
Sobees has made a business of creating innovative social media clients, particularly focusing on bringing Twitter, Facebook and social search to the a variety of platforms. Today, the developer is getting into the news business with the launch of NewsMix, an iPad app which presents news and content shared by your social circle in a magazine format on the device. The app, which costs $2.99 in the App Store, allows you to create and mix a digital magazine composed of content shared in your Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds (Google Reader and feed search). The app will categorize content in a magazine or show news in a separate timeline format for Facebook and Twitter.
And you can view photos and videos in separate sections. SmallRivers - connecting people around shared interests. PostPost. The Tweeted Times. Paper.li – read Twitter and Facebook as a daily newspaper.