Your Flipboard is Ready to Customize

I had an email from Flipboard this morning (see below) telling me that I could now configure the app to work with my Facebook and Twitter accounts. Having now done this, I can tell you that Flipboard is a really nice way to consume these sites, far nice, in fact (in my opinion, and after only a short time playing with them) than either the the websites or apps of these sties (there isn't a dedicated Facebook iPad app - you can use the iPhone app, or the website, but that's it).

The Twitter integration is particularly impressive. Rather than simply giving you a list of tweets, which would be a little dull (I can't see myself wanting to use another Twitter client, to be honest, except to post new tweets), Flipboard pulls in some of the photos and stories linked from the tweets (should "tweets" be capitalised?) and presents them in the "standard" Flipboard magazine format. This looks great and works really well.

If you've got an iPad, Flipboard is the killer app you must install. If you haven't got an iPad, get one, then install Flipboard.   

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Flipboard, Inc." <no-reply@flipboard.com>
Date: 29 July 2010 01:19:09 GMT+01:00
Subject: Your Flipboard is Ready to Customize

Hi there. We're now ready for you to set up your Facebook and Twitter accounts on Flipboard. Try it out and let us know what you think. And thanks again for your patience and enthusiasm.

- The Flipboard Team