Paper, the first product out of the newly developed Facebook Creative Labs, will be available in the U.S. The timing was appropriate: last night, during the company’s earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of the Facebook team emphasized the plan to focus on mobile, including standalone apps. There are some very cool concepts here in this video for making that magazine experience enhanced that make a lot of sense to me.This morning, Facebook announced its upcoming news-reader app, Paper. It is a collaborative project between the Hearst AppLab, Marie Claire, Zinio and Hot Studio. Watch this Video and be amazed.Īnd speaking of interesting magazine approaches here is something from the Marie Clarie iPad App. It takes the chaos of the web and creates beauty. I promise you that this or its grandchildren are part the new world reading order. This is all accomplished in a pleasant, page-flipping, magazine-type experience.

It also imports the first photo in the article. Flipboard takes the 140 character tweets and if they have a URL in them, it goes out to the web and grabs the first two paragraphs of the posting. I tolerate little to no junk by those that I follow, and therefore I get some of the best insights and leads to interesting articles through the use of URLs. The people I follow have proven to me over time that they are worth following. I 'follow' only those who tweet important or interesting things. Believe me I know how insane and heretical that sounds, but Twitter on the Flipboard platform becomes something quite amazing. Perhaps the most amazing thing it does so seamlessly and easily is turn Twitter into a beautiful and highly intelligent magazine.

On it, in a magazine-like experience, I can track Huffington Post, New York Writers, TechCrunch, TED Talks, USA Today, Fantasy Football, National Geographic, NPR Science Magazine, The Onion and many others.

Now that I think about it, my morning reading priorities have been changing and one of the first places I go to as I am slowly gaining morning consciousness is Flipboard. Basically it turns anything that runs through it into a magazine experience. Flipboard is without a doubt one of my favorite Apps for the iPad.

Paper flipboard