iPad App-Paper-board: my friends, my magazine
A magazine from Facebook and Twitter messages, presents opulent: The Paper-board-app for the iPad intoxicated the net community - and could represent the future of our media consumption.
In technology blogs and Twitter messages pile up the enthusiasm: from the "future of news" is the speech of the "magazine of my friends.
The principle of the mini-program is simple: Paper-board collects current Twitter and Facebook messages from friends and, if desired, contents of selected news sites.
All of this is visually opulent, as real-time digital magazine presents: The holiday video of the best mates stands alongside the recommended product to oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico. Paper-board, the first commentators argues that the information understanding of the internet savvy generation of accountability, which can be summarized in one sentence: If a message is important, they will find me already.
The result of this recommendation culture that has been a rather confusing message flow. This now receives a completed, literally handy form. "The timeless principles of print media social media can make it less noisy and more accessible to the general public," says CEO Mike McCue Paper-board his concept.
Curiosity provides crash
The publishers are expected this development, it continues, follow with concern. With the help of the iPad they want to earn on the digital media market finally decent money - with your own content. Paper-board happily in contrast, uses all the network.
The new app for showing iPad although not full texts, but only snippets of text and images before they link to the article itself. Because at that party's around but advertising will be placed observers already expect lawsuits from publishers.
The iPad users seems to disturb the time being barely. On Thursday, shortly after the start, the number of hits on the app was so high that Paper-board crashed again and again.
Please see reports in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
