It seems that not all rumors about Facebook are revealed last day 20 along with the Instagram videos And, after the announcement that there was something new, the rumors about the creation of a Facebook newsreader began to fill the web pages of specialized media Something that seemed to have been silenced until now, when the US newspaper The Wall Street Journal publishes that Facebook aims to become a newspaper for mobile devices
According to this medium, the Facebook team would have spent more than a year working on this project, which they call Reader, although that doesn't seem to be their final name. This would be a tool for both smartphones and tablets where add contents to read them comfortably. A sort of of aggregator for RSS subscriptions and web pages but where the social aspect is also primary, collecting histories from contacts and Facebook pages All this according to the information collected from sources with knowledge about said project. Some keys that are very reminiscent of what is seen in the well-known application Flipboard
In fact, according to the sources commented to said media, the current state of the application Reader of Facebook would somewhat imitate the Flipboard design, being able to toggle between some news items with just swipe to flip and skip to other content.With this, Facebook would be able to have yet another tool to follow positioning itself in the mobile market, a of your goals. Although it also shows one more step towards a new social network concept or a way of adjusting to changing times. In addition, it would be a tool where users could stay longer learning information along with see advertisements , the monetization and benefits system of this company.
The current course of the social network indicates that it seeks personalization and to adapt to each user. At the beginning of the year he already presented a redesign of his wall to allow a greater number of publications of all kinds. More recently there has even been hastags or labels in the purest style TwitterIn addition, the creator of this company, Mark Zuckerberg already announced at a conference that he would like Facebook to become the best newspaper world custom social
For now we will have to wait for the supposed arrival of Reader, which has not yet been dated or even officially confirmed. But, without a doubt, it has to provide great innovations to compete against Flipboard, a tool that seems to have stepped on the accelerator since it decided to give the user the power to create your own personalized magazines, choosing content or even collaborating in the creation with others It seems that the near future of social companies is linked to that of the personalized information And it is that Facebook is not the The only one interested in this aspect, LinkedIn also wants to offer information of interest, for which acquired the Pulse tool several months ago
All of this without losing sight of the fact that the most useful aggregator or, at least extended, Google Reader, will stop working on July 1st An ideal time to promote the supposed tool of Facebook We'll stay tuned.
