When you first launch Flipboard simply pick a few topics to start reading everything from world news to sports, travel and more. Now with Flipboard 2.0, you can save and collect the things you love into your own magazines like “Trips I want to take” or “Dream Homes.” It is the most popular way to catch up on the news you care about, discover amazing things from around the world, or stay connected to the people closest to you. Ultimately, we'll see what the users want.Flipboard is your personal magazine. 'We could certainly have it so you could get a morning and evening edition,' Lipman says. (Lipman says Editions is the first app of this genre to offer a local news section) Right now the developers are sticking with the one edition per day concept but that could change down the road. It's also being careful to link out to full articles on content providers' Websites rather than scrape the whole article and bring it into the app (it's easy to click out of the full view of article and go back to the so-called magazine view of the app).Īfter playing around with Editions for a few days (we got an early look), we have to say the app seems pretty slick, and we like how there's a local news section based on the ZIP code you enter in the settings. However, Editions does not build a magazine based on your Twitter or Facebook feeds like Flipboard does.įor now, Editions will be ad-free but AOL is working on an ad-supported model with content providers. There are also the requisite ties to Facebook and Twitter along with AOL/AIM. In case you're wondering, you get articles from various sources, not just AOL properties (though they are certainly featured), and you can tweak your tastes in terms of the kinds of articles that will surface on certain subjects. Like its competitors, you can select different areas of interest and add additional sections.

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