Saturday, October 15, 2011

Flipboard for the web

Flipbook is one of my favourite iPad apps.  It's a content-styler and aggregator for RSS feeds from my favourite sites like Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, Boingboing, and Buzzfeed.  They would be considered daily reads.  The tool translates very cluttered sites into a nice, flippable interface with the ability to zoom photos, share content and drill into the underlying web site.

The Treesaver HTML5 framework is a web styling tool that works with the iPad to format and present readable content similar to Flipbook. http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/11/01/flipboard-hires-html-5-star-but-no-web-version-planned/

According to the founder of Treesaver, he chose HTML for his framework because "toasters will someday do HTML."   I would buy an internet-enabled toaster if it was less than $120 and it had a Flipbook-like recipe app.  Smell burnt toast?  Stop reading the internets.
Here's four Flipbook-style interfaces for Windows.

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