Flipboard launched version 2.0 which allowed users to create custom magazines. The idea was simple, curate your own feed from twitter, Facebook, Instagram, RSS other Flipboard categories and build your own magazine. Curate it, add content and keep updating it to build a readership to your own magazine.
Since then, more than 2 million user-created magazines have been circulating the mobile space. But now Flipboard is changing the way their users can share and access magazines. All the magazines can be experienced on the web. Starting today, all the Flipboard magazines shared on Email, Twitter, Facebook or anywhere can now be read anywhere. Even on web.
These magazines on web mimic the experience of the traditional Flipboard magazines on your tablet or smartphone. Each magazine has its own cover and pages can be flipped. These magazines will update as soon as the curator updates it.
You can follow these magazines as you can on mobile, just login your account and you can share, follow and add magazines to your feed.
This is a huge step for Flipboard and for content curation. Soon after Google Reader was shut down, everyone is trying their best to capture the market which is loosely held by apps. For now users are getting used to any new RSS reader they can to mend the gap created by losing Google Reader. Feedly has done a tremendous job and has kept its promise to keep growing as users grow. Flipboard earlier promised they will handle your feeds, this might be their answer to a replacement to google Reader. Arguably, people are moving out using traditional RSS readers. User curated content, twitter feed, and such customized feed readers are being accepted and been appreciated by readers. With the number of users rising for each service especially Flipboard which boasts around 80 million, this is a huge step towards a bigger future in content curation.