Flipboard will publish updates: Integrate audio content

Flipboard (Chinese translation: Fei Libo) is a free application that supports the Android and iOS operating systems and integrates content from social media such as Facebook and Sina Weibo to be presented to users in the form of magazines.

According to foreign media reports, Social magazine application Flipboard will be released recently, the new application will integrate audio content. Flipboard integrates audio content from National Public Radio (NPR), International Public Radio (PRI) and social audio platform SoundCloud. In addition, the new Flipboard incorporates the Apple VoiceOver voice accessibility feature, which is ideal for users who need to hear content on the screen. Following the Chinese and French editions, Flipboard will also launch a third local version of the application for Japanese users.

Previously, Flipboard was primarily a magazine platform focused on text content that could be used to read news, blogs and social networking status updates. Because news is often published in a variety of formats, the new features of Flipboard are of great significance.

A new version of Flipboard application will be added to the audio (audio), which can showcase selected content from Npr,pri and SoundCloud. The new block also adds a search option that allows the user to discover the audio content provided by any one Flipboard.

Audio content can also support background playback, users quit the application, you can continue to listen to or browse Flipboard.

Flipboard officials earlier said the new audio integration was only the beginning of Flipboard's next development, and Flipboard would be developed from "magazine" to a digital entertainment center. Flipboard did not release detailed development plans, but it tried to "develop more audio services", and the current market has many outstanding partners, including Spotify, Rdio, Mog and Pandora streaming media music services.

While collaboration with the companies is expected to boost Flipboard's music services, Flipboard will still integrate more podcast content. In the future, Flipboard will also develop video services, which means that Flipboard will compete in the future with social video services such as Twitvid, Showyou, and shelby.tv.

It is reported that Flipboard plans to land on the Android platform this summer, but the specific date has not been determined. (Edward)