Flipboard has scored another magazine coup, ReadWriteWeb reports, adding a feed for Rolling Stone Magazine and demonstrating once again why they’re still the best way to read magazine and magazine-style content on-line. The new section is essentially a tweaked presentation of the @RollingStone twitter feed, adding a bent-back-magazine-style frame for the smaller version of the article rather than a scroll-up half-screen version. (This frame seems to be used for all their content partners’ publications, since they know the source will never be bigger than a tweet.) As a result, sometimes short-form tweets share the overview page with framed...

I was looking at a post on ReadWriteWeb about The Daily today, and finally got around to reading through the current edition myself. I find I am largely in agreement with Richard MacManus about the relative blandness of the news on offer. He calls it “middle-of-the-road fare, with a few seemingly token geek stories” and suggests that Flipboard is altogether a better iPad newspaper equivalent. I looked through today’s articles on The Daily and found an opinion piece about the possible death of chain bookstores (which I may very well blog tomorrow when I have more time to type),...

The great e-magazine control freak strikes again: CNet and AppleInsider are reporting that Apple has told a number of European newspaper and magazine publishers that they will not be allowed to offer free iPad magazine e-subscriptions to print subscribers through Apple’s e-newsstand app. The publishers are not terribly pleased about this, but from a neutral point of view it’s hard to fault Apple’s position. After all, Apple can’t extract a 30% agent’s fee from money that doesn’t pass through their store. This is also why the only e-book app allowed to offer in-app purchases is iBooks. Publishers may...

I just got around to doing a software update on my iPad. Among others it fetched a new update to the Reeder RSS reader, containing a remarkably useful feature that I am extremely glad to have. Although I mentioned the Reeder vs. MobileRSS controversy last week at the time the update actually came out, the nature of the update escaped my notice until now. Reeder has added a Readability button to its user interface. When I encounter a RSS feed that does not provide the whole article (some feeds are especially obnoxious that way—most notably The Bookseller’s, which...

(Welcome, BoingBoing readers! Thank you for coming.) Our main mission here at TeleRead is cover the ways that electronic media have changed reading. But occasionally we also talk about how it changes writing, because after all, writing is just the flip side of reading. And there are a number of sites where writing is only half the equation, because after someone has written something electronically, then naturally other people are going to need to read it electronically. One such site, which I have discussed here before, was Ficlets.com, begun in early 2007 as a subsidiary of...

Shortly after Apple called it the “best iPad app of the year,” awesome social reading app Flipboard has a major new update out that adds a couple of much-requested capabilities to the social network reader for the iPad: it now supports Flickr and Google Reader feeds. As Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb reports, it actually incorporates most of the functions possible in Google Reader, including starring items, sharing items, marking as read, and so on. That’s certainly a lot more than the Pulse RSS reader has yet managed to do. I tried the new feature out, and it...

Apple has lately named social-network reading app Flipboard (iTunes page) its “iPad App of the Year” for 2010. Big news for the company, whose app proved so popular on launch that its servers melted down in a matter of minutes, but not a big surprise. As I said of it in my review, the app is one of the prettiest things I’ve seen for the iPad, and I always recommend it to iPad owners I help over the phone in my tech-support day job. As Jay Yarow said on Business Insider: From a higher level,...

Sir Richard Branson has launched a magazine called Project for the iPad. It probably won't be a success if it continues on the present path. According to Paid Content the $2.99 magazine took 14 minutes to download over WiFi and was tricky to navigate. Anything that takes that long to download defeats the very purpose of a machine like the iPad. More details in this Paid Content article which says: As an iPad app, however, it devotes a full-page schematic to explaining “How to use Project”. That’s something which should be so intuitive as to be...

Adrianne Jeffries at ReadWriteWeb has an interesting piece looking at how the focus of Twitter has shifted over the years. It started out as a way to communicate with friends, sort of instant messaging on a time delay, but its role has changed considerably as more and more people began using it as a way to share links they found interesting—and more and more media sources began making it easy to share links via Twitter. Now, Jeffries writes: Twitter is increasingly about news, content and information in an easily-digestible format. By delivering real-time updates...

Business Insider’s Silicon Alley Insider has talked to the company behind the iPad social network reading app Flipboard again, catching up on the aftereffects of the controversy surrounding the company at its app’s launch in July. Some wondered whether, in aggregating content from links posted to social networks Twitter and Facebook, the company was taking more than fair use allowed. It turns out that the controversy may have been on the order of a tempest in a teacup. [Cofounder and CEO Mike] McCue says only a tiny handful of publishers have complained about the...

Apparently the Pulse RSS reader is feeling a little Flipboard envy. TechCrunch reports that Alphonso Labs, Pulse’s developer, is teaming up with Posterous to allow one-click aggregation of articles into a free Posterous-created blog for each individual user. Something about this seems terribly familiar. Oh, wait. That’s just like what Google Reader does. (Not to mention any RSS app, such as Reeder, that integrates directly with it. And Google Reader lets you read from more feeds, too.) In fact, integration with Google Reader’s starring and sharing system is one of the things that Pulse users have been...

One of the more controversial e-reading apps to hit in recent days is Flipboard, the free app that aggregates content that friends have shared on social media. I’ve previously reported on the controversy it engendered by its potentially copyright-violating aggregatory nature. Lately, I’ve finally had the chance to examine the app itself. In summary: wow. Flipboard is one of the prettiest things I’ve seen on the iPad yet. And it’s free. If you have an iPad, and are on Facebook and/or Twitter, you have absolutely no excuse not to go and download it. Even if you’re not on social media,...