Google has unloose a liberal mobile app that pulls content from different websites into one place and let mass build what expect a bit like their own personalized online magazine .
Google Currents
Called Google Currents , the app came out on Thursday , one day after a similar app called Flipboard was liberate for Apple ’s iPhone . Flipboard has already beena hit on the iPad , and many masses had problem getting start up with the iPhone version when it come out , presumably because its host were overloaded .
Google Currents
One bad deviation is that Currents runs on both Android and Apple iOS devices , while Flipboard is only for iOS . Yahoo offer yet another similar program , call Livestand , and others such as Pulse and AOL Editions are also in the game . Like Google Currents , they ’re all free to download and use , not counting the net charges .
A common train of thought is that they allow people to select content from around the Web , such as tidings , photos , or their own Facebook and Twitter accounts , and arrange it on the concealment in a way that lets them flick through the substance like varlet in a magazine .
Google posted a video recording demo of its app ina web log Charles William Post . It partnered with 150 publishers , include Forbes , Al Jazeera , PCWorld and Zagat , to bring articles and other contentedness to its app . It has all been initialise for the peregrine machine to make it easier to pilot , observe and read .
Google also launched some ego - religious service tools to help smaller publishers , who might not have their own fluid computer software developer , to convert their subject so it can be watch through Google Currents .