年度7大应用软件开发商大阅兵

Flipboard：想读什么点什么   

    过去一年间，市场上一直充斥着各种精选网络内容的工具，从美国在线公司（AOL）的数字版杂志Editions和个性化电子杂志Zite，直到坊间盛传谷歌即将推出的新闻阅读类产品Propeller，它们都号称要成为网民的头好选择。这一切并非巧合。

    这类产品大部分都和Flipboard有着千丝万缕的联系。它是由麦克•麦库开发的免费iPad阅读软件。今年早些时候，麦库对《财富》杂志称：“最大的挑战之一是简化内容的发现、消费和理解。”Flipboard是如何解决这一问题的？它将网站、博客、Facebook和Twitter中读者所喜爱的内容用电子杂志的形式呈现出来，用户只需用手指滑动或“轻敲”，就能轻松阅读。

    尽管刚刚起步，但Flipboard正在快速成长。自从其去年首次亮相于“《财富》杂志科技头脑风暴大会”（Fortune Brainstorm Tech）以来，它已被下载了超过350万次，并且几乎每10台iPad中就有1台安装了这一软件。这么多用户每个月“轻敲”阅读的次数约为5.5亿次。实际上，Flipboard已经成为业界的热门话题，它已成为一项标准，所有其他阅读精选类软件都得常常与之一比高下，或许这就是对它最好的赞美。

    It's no coincidence that over the last year, the market has been flooded by a number of tools gunning to become your go-to for curated web content, from AOL Editions and Zite to Google's rumored upcoming offering, Propeller.

    A lot of that has to do with Flipboard, the gorgeous free iPad reading app founded by Mike McCue. "One of the biggest challenges is how do you make that content more easily discoverable, easily consumable, easily digestible," McCue told Fortune earlier this year. Flipboard's solution? Present your favorite content from web sites, blogs, Facebook and Twitter, and in a digital magazine-like format you swipe or "flip" through.

    While it's still early, Flipboard is growing fast. Since its debut at Fortune Brainstorm Tech last year, it's been downloaded more than 3.5 million times and can be found on nearly one in every 10 iPads. Those users make some 550 million flips happen every month. In fact, Flipboard has become so buzz-worthy, it's become the standard against which all other curation apps are often compared to, which is perhaps the best compliment of all.