Flipboard: Social Media Magazine

Flipboard: Social Media Magazine

Ok, so they didn't have the smoothest of launches.  But even though they were overwhelmed on their first day by over-eager iPad owners, we think there is something really interesting about Flipboard

It is an iPad App that formats your friends' recommended page-links from Facebook and Twitter into a really smart looking, glossy magazine.  The theory being that the stuff your friends like, is likely to be the stuff you like too.  It's very, very slick … and could well point the way to both the future of publishing … and the way we gather information about what's cool and what's not.  Do we hear screams coming from the Googleplex?

Have a look at the article in Fortune too.