Today’s Tech Tuesday session will be on applications you can use to read news on your mobile device. Most of these allow you to select your news sources and link to your social media accounts in order to personalize and maximize your news reading experience.
Here is the handout for the class with links to some of these applications and sites: http://bit.ly/vCoI20
Paper.li
- Personalized newspaper
- http://paper.li/
- Desktop service and iPhone app
- Magazine feel
- Links to social media as well as news sources
- http://www.flipboard.com Click on Help for User Guides.
- For iPad and iPhone
- iPad and iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flipboard/id358801284?mt=8
Pulse
- Mosaic layout
- http://www.pulse.me/
- For Adroid, iPad, and iPhone
- Android: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.alphonso.pulse&hl=en
- iPad: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pulse-news-for-ipad/id371088673?mt=8
- iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pulse-news-for-iphone/id377594176?mt=8
Zite Personalized Magazine
- “Learns what you want and gets smarter as you use it” – thumbs up/down and clicks
- iPad and iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zite-personalized-magazine/id419752338?mt=8
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Other/Related:
Read It Later
- Free: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ideashower.readitlater.free
- Pro ($2.99): https://market.android.com/details?id=com.ideashower.readitlater.pro
Instapaper
- http://www.instapaper.com/
- For iPad, iPhone, Kindle, desktop
Delicious
- Social bookmarking site
- http://www.delicious.com
Direct any questions to Marie Ascher by commenting here.