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Flipboard's iPhone app is so popular, the company's service has gone down, it announced today.

"Due to high demand, our service is currently down," Flipboard tweeted out to followers this morning. "We are working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience."

Flipboard launched its social-magazine application on the iPhone yesterday. Like the iPad version, which has proven wildly popular, the app lets users pull information from Facebook and Twitter accounts, check out professional news content, and more, all within its unique interface. CNET editor Rafe Needleman took the application for a spin yesterday, … Read more

An update to the gorgeous Flipboard news- and article-reading app just came out, giving iPhone users access to this previously iPad-only content viewer.

Like other new, high-profile apps (Path comes to mind), Flipboard for the iPhone makes for a fantastic demo. It's what you want to show your mother to explain to her why she should get an iPhone. Its article-to-article and in-story navigation is at once highly unusual and intuitive (you "flip" pages up with your thumb, unlike the iPad version where you flip them to the side). Some of the transitions in the app have … Read more

Flipboard, which calls itself a "social magazine" for the iPad, launched a long-awaited iPhone app today.

The app, which pulls information from Facebook and Twitter accounts, turns friends' updates into nicely formatted, perusal-friendly pages. Flipboard also delivers a couple dozen aggregated content sections (news, finance, music, tech, etc.) selected by Flipboard's creators.

The iPad app is popular for its attractive magazine-style presentation of headlines, story blurbs, and photos. The iPhone app adds a feature called Cover Stories, which Flipboard says learns from a reader's interactions with the content and helps them quickly catch up with some … Read more

Yahoo will launch its Livestand digital newsstand for tablets and smartphones at a scheduled Wednesday press briefing, according to AllThingsD.

And in the coming days, Google too will enter the increasingly crowded field with its newsstand application, code-named Propeller, the site reports.

The digital newsstand market includes the popular application Flipboard, Pulse, and CNN's Zite. Yahoo demoed Livestand earlier this year, at which point the app ran only content from Yahoo properties, such as Yahoo Sports, Flickr, and the celebrity gossip site OMG. Yahoo has been working to woo publishers to the application ever since.

Google's Propeller, too, … Read more

Flipboard founder and CEO Mike McCue devoted his 10-minute Web 2.0 talk this morning to beauty, emotion, and design. Not data, the theme of this year's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.

"When you want to create a hit, you've got to be willing to look away from the data," he said. The backdrop for McCue's mini-presentation? A picture of a lipstick red 1957 Jaguar XK SS. McCue referenced the classic car, in part, to demonstrate how something beautiful can elicit a visceral reaction. "It makes you feel good, like the Jaguar,&… Read more

Veteran Time Inc. journalist Josh Quittner completed his defection from print media by joining Silicon Valley startup Flipboard--the popular social-magazine app for the iPad--this past July. Quittner is Flipboard's first editorial director. Before joining the company, he directed Time Inc.'s digital magazine strategy and ran editorial for Time.com. In the mid-1990s he was the first writer to cover the Internet exclusively for Time. And he's also had stints running editorial for Fortune and Business 2.0. So why leave a namesake publishing conglomerate for an unproven social-media experiment? Anyone familiar with consumer technology knows Flipboard … Read more

Google is working on a social-news magazine that will be accessible on the iPad and Android devices, according to reports.

"Mind-blowing good," is how digital pundit and blogger Robert Scoble said a source of his described it in a post late on Wednesday on Google+.

Google representatives did not respond to a CNET request for comment. However, AllThingsD confirmed the news from several sources and reported this evening that Propeller is the name of Google's attempt at making a "Flipboard killer."

The news comes at a time when the social-publishing arena is heating up, with … Read more

SAN FRANCISCO--The Web will soon look a lot like a traditional print experience, the founder of leading iPad news aggregator Flipboard said Monday.

Speaking on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference here, Mike McCue, whose Flipboard has attracted more than $60 million in funding, explained that in his view, tablets like the iPad are "creating a new kind of (content) consumption experience, (one which) people have been dreaming about."

McCue, who had previously created and sold Internet voice communications firm Tellme, said that iPads and other tablets offer users a "fundamental improvement to the (mobile) Web," … Read more

The tagline for AOL's just-released Editions iPad app is "The magazine that reads you," a nod to the concept that Editions builds a daily "magazine" based on your reading tastes. But in an effort to drum up a little buzz for the app, several weeks ago the folks behind Editions posted a YouTube video jokingly referring to the tagline as the "The app for when you crap."

Sol Lipman, senior director of AOL's Mobile First division in Palo Alto, Calif., and star of the video, says that it was all in good … Read more