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Tearing Flipboard apart
I’ve been checking out Flipboard ever since it got nominated as the iPad App of 2010. As an avid user of Google Reader and RSS (and recently Pulse), it was initially hard to see what the hype was...
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Replicating Flipboard Part I – Site Scraping
Having taken a long good look at the social magazine Flipboard, it was time to dig beneath the cover and contemplate what kind of technology lies behind its minimalistic interface. I began by studying...
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Replicating Flipboard Part II – Social Signals
The adoption of a brand new ranking paradigm – social strength, was the single most ground-breaking thinking that was in Flipboard’s design, not unlike how Google invented PageRank and changed the game...
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Replicating Flipboard Part III – How Flipboard lays out content
Shifting the focus back to the iPad app, let's take a look at how Flipboard processes and lays out Facebook and Twitter feeds.
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Replicating Flipboard Part IV – Prelude
What you see here is a cover page using a random image from Instagram transitioning into the first articles page showing stories from my Twitter feed. The layout was generated dynamically from a custom...
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Cassius is on github
Finally got round to putting together a decent enough client of Cassius on Github!
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Knitting a page
References on how to layout news story articles is plentiful, yet the most useful I came across was a paper published in 1977 titled "Computer Assisted Layout of Newspapers" by the MIT.
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The Three Pillars of Social Reader Relevancy (I)
While big name players attempt to tackle the issue simply by snapping on extra features (Google Mobile Voice Search, Google Instant Preview for Mobile.etc.), the underlying problems remain resolved as...
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