Your Personal Publication

Have you ever wanted to subscribe to a magazine that caters exclusively to you? Then this app’s for you.

Flipboard is a new application for Apple’s iPad. It takes aspects from your social networking life and compiles them into a magazine format. For example your issue would contain random links from your Facebook or Twitter accounts, status updates from your friends and photos. You can also add sections to your magazine compiled from the tweets of another publication like the New York Times or Huffington Post.

And since everyone is constantly updating and changing their Facebook account your personal magazine is being updated as well. Andrew Vanacore is a business writer with the Associated Press and for the past week has been giving the new app a test run. Vanacore says it’s perfect for getting a quick, broad sense of what your social network is up too.

But on the downside the app requires a strong internet connection to run so you won’t be able to use it everywhere. And while the content comes from your friends, the layout comes from the software, which cuts people out of pictures or places stories in an unusual order. Gee, that sounds just like what real magazines do.