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Flipboard lauches Surf, a new app for browing the open social web

Social magazine app maker Flipboard is reinventing itself for the new era of the open social web. While the company’s original app allowed users to collect content from blogs, news websites, and traditional social media services like Facebook and Twitter in order to create curated magazines, its new app called Surf, launching into invite-only beta

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Flipboard launches Surf, a new app for browsing the open social web

Social magazine app maker Flipboard is reinventing itself for the new era of the open social web. While the company’s original app allowed users to collect content from blogs, news websites, and traditional social media services like Facebook and Twitter in order to create curated magazines, its new app called Surf, launching into invite-only beta

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With this latest deal, Flipboard looks to build a news ecosystem beyond X

An effort to bring a broader news ecosystem to the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is now in the hands of the social magazine app Flipboard. Press.coop, a service that created mirrored accounts of top news publishers (including Reuters, AP, WSJ, NYT, BBC, CNN, and even yours truly), has transferred its collection

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Flipboard users can now follow anyone in the fediverse, including those on Threads

Instagram Threads users are gaining a new audience. On Tuesday, the social magazine app Flipboard took another step toward integrating with ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol that powers services like Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube and others. Starting Tuesday, Flipboard users can follow any federated accounts, meaning those that participate in the social network of interconnected

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