The news magazine app now has gifs. Go crazy, Apple device users. Plus, it puts the newest and most popular stories at the top of each section. August 14, 2013 10:48 AM PDT (Credit: Flipboard) Flipboard's Apple device users can now be as animated as their Android counterparts. The news magazine app added gifs support with its latest iOS update, the company announced Wednesday. The company added support for the animated files for Android users along side the launch of its Web-based version last month. Flipboard is also trying out a new feature called Top Stories, which puts the newest and most popular content of the day in the news, business, technology and sports at the top of each section. It's an experiment that puts Flipboard more in line with what Twitter does well -- real-time news. Other new features encourage users to spend more time reading Flipboard items. Flipboard's added an automatic prompt to share magazines with friends and followers that's triggered by a curator flipping 10 items into a magazine. Additionally, when a user creates more than two magazines, Flipboard will automatically generate an avatar that links to a user profile that features all of the user's magazines. Donna Tam Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
The news magazine app now has gifs. Go crazy, Apple device users. Plus, it puts the newest and most popular stories at the top of each section.
(Credit: Flipboard)
Flipboard's Apple device users can now be as animated as their Android counterparts. The news magazine app added gifs support with its latest iOS update, the company announced Wednesday.
The company added support for the animated files for Android users along side the launch of its Web-based version last month.
Flipboard is also trying out a new feature called Top Stories, which puts the newest and most popular content of the day in the news, business, technology and sports at the top of each section. It's an experiment that puts Flipboard more in line with what Twitter does well -- real-time news.
Other new features encourage users to spend more time reading Flipboard items. Flipboard's added an automatic prompt to share magazines with friends and followers that's triggered by a curator flipping 10 items into a magazine. Additionally, when a user creates more than two magazines, Flipboard will automatically generate an avatar that links to a user profile that features all of the user's magazines.
Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
