My main use case of Flipboard is for creating tiles for specific location feeds on Instagram (such as my work, my gym, certain NFL stadiums, etc..). It's the only app I'm aware of that allows this (any others?). I wish Instagram allowed venue favoriting for quick access instead of having to randomly find a photo with the tagged venue.
Flipboard should definitely push tiles of instagram locations as a retention/engagement tactic. I think it might be useful. NFL Sunday --> 16 tiles of each NFL stadium with games that day. Boom! :)
@mmccue definitely. I've exposed a lot of friends (who are heavy Instagram users) to Flipboard by showing them that feature and now they're hooked on Flipboard. :)
@mmccue whoa, didn't know you responded. :) a very simple option to disable the flip animation and instead opt for a very, very, very simple transition into the chosen article. that's it. i love the product, but I can't use it - I know it's psychological, but I hate that transition. :)
(side note: @rhoover, would be nice to receive notifications of a response.)
Is this the version that will finally see Zite killed off? I really hope not as i still love to use Zite. Please keep it alive, Flipboard!
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I've been a heavy Zite user for a while so I'm excited to start seeing Zite features get ported over to the Flipboard interface.
@mmccue will we see other features be ported? I love Zite's automated news recommendations.
If people ask me about my favourite companies and products they make, I always mention Flipboard! And as always, with Flipboard 3.0 the team did a great piece of art, technology and innovation!
I agree with @dankaplan and I see hope to see Flipboard as my central way to connect to news and brands who I want to be connected to, which is both beneficial for brands and myself (consumer).
The 3.0 update feels and works great and I like how you guys succeeded to make the experience more simple, while adding new features in the same time. The new "Flip Into" experience feels way better (simpler and faster) than ever before. The suggestion of new magazines is not annoying and is very accurate and beautiful presented.
BUT: I still use Pulse almost every day as well, mainly because of its design to present news in the grid, which is faster and simpler to consume than to flip on Flipboard. Thats why I like the new overview of stories, where Flipboard shows 2 or 3 stories per screen sometimes, but then shows each story only one per screen again. Maybe in the future the reader can select between a grid view or a story view. In the story detail itself I think there are too many actions (like, comment, share, add) and no primary action highlighted visually (Pinterest does a great job here with their dominant Pin It button). If "Flip Into" is the primary action for the story to drive more magazine curation, I would also highlight that.
Overall, an awesome update! Keep it up!
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