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I have long used Flipboard to follow tech and political news, or to leaf through everything posted on Twitter or Facebook by particular people or sites. The company says that capability has earned it 50 million registered users and a smaller, but active, core group of millions who use it daily. The original Flipboard, which is produced by a small, private Silicon Valley company of the same name, was aimed at helping people wade through the welter of information on social networks and the Web, by allowing them to corral posts on popular topics like, say, baking or basketball, into attractive collections. Walt Mossberg’s Flipboard magazine on the American Revolution For now, the new version is only available for Apple’s devices, but an Android edition is in the works. There are some limitations to the new capabilities, but they make your mobile device more personal and more of a creative tool, rather than just a means of consumption. My verdict is the new features make a great mobile app even better. I’ve been testing this new version of Flipboard, which has some other improved features, over the past week or so, on several iPads and an iPhone. If you make your magazine public, anyone with Flipboard, which is a free app, can read it and comment on it. Now, a new second generation of Flipboard, out Tuesday, is extending the app so it allows users to create and share their own handsome digital magazines with a few clicks and without any design talent required. One of the best ways of following topics that are interesting to you is Flipboard, a popular app for Apple and Android mobile devices that automatically turns social-network posts and news from online publications into beautiful, magazine-like pages you “flip” through by swiping.
