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Apps
Make Your Own Mag
A new app for the iPad is making a lot of waves. It’s called Flipboard, and it’s free to download from the iTunes store. What it does, very simply, is to create a kind of free magazine for you. No, we aren’t quailing in our boots just yet. This one is generated for you on the fly from the media content — articles, images, photo and video — generated by your friends on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, plus content selected by Flipboard itself. It combines the ease of use of the iPad with quick tools that let users quickly interact with their social networks. Released a few days ago, it quickly caught the imagination of iPad owners, and its hitherto unknown creators were promptly inundated. They were not able to meet the demand and had to put a sort of waiting list in place so that users could get full functionality.
Books
(This story appears in the 13 August, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)