Flipboard Blog
about.flipboard.com · Company blog · on HN since 2010
Flipboard's company blog posts product news, local news expansion, and security incident notices for its social magazine app.
What HN saysHN commenters mention Flipboard as a closest replacement for a newspaper and in discussions of Mastodon's CEO and content-use terms.
32HN people shared it
8linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Notice of Security Incident5 people · 56 points · first shared 2019 · 23 comments on HN
- 2Flipboard – Notice of Security Incident3 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 3Flipboard will save your Google Reader feeds2 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 4Introducing Flipboard for iPhone2 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 5Homepage2 people · first shared 2015
- 6Welcome to the next generation of Flipboard1 people · 9 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7Flipboard Launches on the Web1 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 8New version of Flipboard1 people · 6 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 9The New Flipboard Gets Personal with Over 30,000 Topics to Follow1 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 10“After March 24, you can no longer add Facebook to your Flipboard”1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 11Everything You Wanted to Know About Google+ on Flipboard1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 12Flipboard Launches Accounts1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13Flipboard Launches in China1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 14The New Flipboard1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 15Flipboard: 20MM Users, 1 New User/Sec1 people · 2 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
mtmail · 2015-01-10
The closest newspaper replacement is https://about.flipboard.com/ for me.
brianfitz · 2024-11-06
Flipboard. https://about.flipboard.com/
Philpax · 2025-01-13
Seems like all of those points about the landscape are exactly why you'd want to work on a personal blog. You can write something that's representative of you.
As for the how: same as always, I think. Write content because you want to do it, then share it through places where you know potential readers are (HN, Bluesky, your friends, etc)
I know that people are also using Substack and similar platforms as they can help with both distribution and marketing, but I know less about that.
Molly White has written about why one should blog, but I can't find the exact piece of writing, so here's a podcast with her instead: https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/molly-white/
pityJuke · 2023-12-31
> edit wait did this article seriously just call the guy running the open source project mastodon, “CEO”…?
That is his title [0]. Other places calling him CEO include Flipboard's interview with him [1], and various tech articles [2].
[0]: His LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargron/
[1]: https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/eugen-rochko/
[2]: https://www.wired.com/story/the-man-behind-mastodon-eugen-rochko-built… and https://www.theverge.com/23658648/mastodon-ceo-twitter-interview-elon-…
simbolit · 2023-12-19
"By posting it, you give us permission to use your content to do what we reasonably believe necessary to improve and provide our service both now and in the future. For example, this may include storing, displaying, reproducing and distributing your content on Flipboard’s website, mobile application, our social web integrations, and any future offerings. This might also include providing or promoting your content with partner companies or services for broader broadcast, redistribution or publication via Flipboard."
https://about.flipboard.com/terms-of-service/
remram · 2023-11-24
It's ironic that they would announce that on Medium, a platform that I find way more user-hostile than Twitter.
Perhaps the bigger news is that Flipboard itself is planning to federate via ActivityPub: https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-mastodon-federa…
timmins · 2013-03-14
I'm surprised Flipboard hasn't been added to the poll.
http://inside.flipboard.com/2013/03/14/weve-got-your-rss-covered-save-…
murki · 2011-12-07
They've been updating their status with some more info their blog as well: http://inside.flipboard.com/2011/12/07/the-power-of-flipboard-in-your-…