![]() ![]() In the same way in which I consider my own Twitter account to be a resource for my readers-by retweeting other publications, making interesting observations, taking pictures and being goofy-my Twitter feed is just as interesting to read in the context of Flipboard. My favorite aspect of Flipboard has been to turn Twitter feeds (like my own) into personalized magazines for the iPad or Android smartphones and tablets. To me, the recommendation engine in Zite was something Flipboard had always been lacking.įlipboard is basically a magazine-you get feeds from Twitter or Facebook accounts delivered in an interesting and readable way. The beauty of Zite was never its user experience-which, to be fair, was always good but never great-but the engine that powered it. Want to read more mobile news? More ReadWrite? More from a specific author specifically? You could tune your Zite to offer you those articles but also many similar articles. Essentially, Zite was a big recommendation engine that gives you articles based on what you like to read-based on your social feeds like Facebook and Twitter, but also based on your reading history and preferences. If you are not familiar with Zite, it is a personal news reading application that launched on the iPad in 2011. But Zite had the technology that put it a class ahead of all the other news apps, even if it didn’t have the users to become a breakout hit like Flipboard. ![]() Flipboard is the most attractive of the new age mobile newsreaders and has way more users than Zite or any other mobile-based social magazine or news reader applications. I have always felt a little guilty about my Zite addiction. This acquisition is perhaps the best thing that could’ve happened to both Zite and Flipboard. See also: Inside Look Into How Zite Brings Personalized News to Your iPad Soon, Zite will be no more and will get rolled into social magazine Flipboard, which acquired Zite from CNN on Wednesday. ![]() I knew there were other capable and quality newsreaders out there, but Zite always delivered the breadth and serendipity of news that I craved to get a whole perspective on what is happening in the world. For the last three years, I have gotten most of my news from one primary source: Zite on the iPad. ![]()
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