Personalized iPad Magazine Zite Learns As You Read, Challenges Flipboard. Have you ever created a Genius playlist on iTunes or set up a station on Pandora? Just plug in one song, and you instantly hear music that matches your tastes. Think of Zite, the free personalized iPad magazine that launched today, as the Genius playlist or Pandora of news discovery--but with one noticeable advantage: Zite is smarter, at least for now. Developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia's Laboratory for Computational Intelligence, the technology behind Zite can learn your reading habits and personalize content based on your interests. When first opening the app, Zite will immediately begin personalizing your experience. Link a Twitter account or Google Reader, and Zite will analyze (not simply display) your feeds to create a magazine tailored to your interests. You might get sources you know, you might get content you want from sources you don't know.
As I skimmed through the news, Zite began learning my preferences. A Review of Zite iPad App. Introducing Zite, the iPad's Smartest Magazine Yet. Watch out, Flipboard. As of Wednesday, you have some serious competition: a free app called Zite that is constantly learning what you like to read on the iPad and creating a magazine finely tailored to your needs. Many iPad owners who have used the free Flipboard app for any length of time are familiar with its promise and its shortcomings. Sure, it looks cool — enter your Twitter name and Facebook account, and it turns those feeds into a magazine, complete with gorgeous photos, headlines and virtually flippable pages. That's why Apple named it iPad app of the year for 2010. The app also offers its own curated news feeds and can now plug into your Flickr account.
But how often do you actually read it? "What's broken is there's so much stuff out there, and I don't know how to get to it," says Ali Devar, Zite's founder and CEO. Zite pulls in stories from your Twitter feed, if you wish, or your Google Reader account. The app's secret sauce is this: It learns from your everyday reading.
The Tweeted Times - personal newspaper generated from your Twitter account. Flipboard Upgrade Boosts Speed, Integrates Social Search and Instagram. Flipboard, the popular news aggregator/browser app, just got a significant makeover that boosts speed and includes Instagram support and a clever social search. Let the news-browser wars begin. Just the other day we covered the launch of Zite, a smart news-browser app for the iPad that personalizes the news content it delivers to you based on your habits. It was a shot across the bow of Flipboard, which is among the leading news browsing apps on the iPad. Now Flipboard's revealed a suite of tweaks and polishes, bug-fixes, and speed-boosts that make the app much more powerful. Leading the changes is an Instagram feature that uses Instagram's services' new API hooks, and brings all of the shared stream of photos coming from Instagram's many users--presented as a touchscreen-friendly digital photo album, and including all the usual like, comment and share features.
The updated Flipboard is slicker and has new official content partners--including Wired. Publishing a Paper.li. Which Paper.li is for me? There are four types of Twitter account based papers a user can create, and one Facebook account based. The audience of your paper, or the use of your paper, is going to influence the type of paper you create. 1. Account Based Paper : a paper created on your Twitter account This paper is generated from the content of your account; content tweeted by yourself and that of the people you follow. It provides you with a comprehensive overview of your timeline and who you follow. The newspaper layout is convenient, and provides you with news you find relevant based on the trusted network of users that you follow. The Navigation Bar at the top of your paper highlights the focus of your content for that paper.
You can edit this paper title of your paper, schedule the update time, and opt to promote your paper, (or not) all under settings. 2. The #tag is a convention created by Twitter users in order to reference a subject in a tweet. 3. 4. Paper Focus : Advanced queries 5. PostPost. Paper.li – read Twitter and Facebook as a daily newspaper. Flipboard: Future is HTML5, RSS & New New Advertising: Tech News and Analysis «
As traditional publishers struggle to find new business models centered on the iPad and other tablets, Mike McCue, the founder of Palo Alto, Calif. -based mobile media company, Flipboard, seems to have figured out a business model for his 20-person company. McCue wants to build tablet-oriented HTML5 experiences, which allow him to bring branded advertising into a new, interactive and personalized future. The app, which launched in July 2010 amidst a lot of fanfare, critical acclaim and criticism, has been quietly figuring out its long-term game plan. The app uses a unique interface that marries magazine-like metaphors with multi-touch gestures, and displays links shared by your followers and friends on Twitter and Facebook. It’s one of my favorite apps, but I’ve always felt the company needs to embrace the world beyond the two social networking heavyweights: Twitter and Facebook.
RSS Everywhere When McCue stopped by my office earlier this week, I put this question to him.