By Jason B. Jones, Profhacker, Chronicle of Higher Ed
What it does, then, is scan your Twitter and Facebook accounts for links, and preloads them for you in a spiffy, magazine-inspired format. In addition, once one of your friends has shared a link, Flipboard also tracks who else in your network has posted the link, so that you can participate in any online conversations about it. You never have to click a blind URL to discover an article again! Flipboard’s fast and stylish, and puts the focus where it should be: on making it easy for you to decide whether something’s important. What’s nice about Flipboard is it’s the first Twitter app to think seriously about how the experience might be different on an iPad.
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