Sure they look cool, but could this be done better?įlipboard pulls data from your Facebook and Twitter accounts and builds a “social magazine” around it. They just let you pick up some sources and read. The concept is genius, but based on simple foundations: we’re seeing all these visual news readers for iPad, but they’re impersonal. It should have gone live in a few hours, but it’s already available in the iPad App Store. Much anticipated by last week and today, Flipboard is a free News app for the iPad.

I think that the second wave starts today with Flipboard. I’ve mentioned the “second wave of iPad apps” before: I think that a new generation of applications for Apple’s tablet is ready to invade the App Store to show everyone, not just its 3 million users, what the iPad was meant to be since the beginning. A few times (a very few times, actually) a new app arrives and reinvents everything you thought about a device.

Sometimes a new app comes around and reinvents a genre.

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