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Shaping the Future of the Newspaper

Date

Fri - 25.05.2012


TigerLogic creates real-time Facebook newspaper, called PostPost

TigerLogic creates real-time Facebook newspaper, called PostPost

TigerLogic Corporation is taking the concept of a personalised newspaper and applying it to the social networking world.

The data management and application solutions company announced today it is launching PostPost, a "real-time personal social newspaper that collects and curates posts shared by your Facebook friends into a familiar, easy-to-read tabloid layout," the company explained in a press release. The newspaper hopes to improve upon the Facebook News Feed, which it says "can quickly become cluttered and unmanageable."

"PostPost is a news aggregator for the social generation, and collates the articles, videos, and photos your friends have found interesting enough to post. It features advanced search technology powered by yolink where users can search deeply within all of their news articles across disparate sources," the PostPost website explained.

PostPost is similar to paper.li, which recently launched Facebook support for its product. However, with paper.il, there is more of an ability to customise news sources, Mashable's Christina Warren pointed out. It also is similar to the mobile app Pulse and the Flipboard iPad app; however, PostPost is accessible through Web browsers, she explained.

To access PostPost, users just login to Facebook, and access the app, and the most recent stories will appear at the top of the newspaper-like format. It is built off Facebook's Open Graph API, and basically uses Facebook's infrastructure to host content, and JavaScript for the display layer and user controls, according to the press release.

"In practical terms, the decision to use JavaScript means that PostPost is able to fetch and display news stories in real time. The web app doesn't have to fetch data from the server at regular intervals; it can be updated in real time. However, the disadvantage is that the app can be at the liberty of the Facebook API. That means that the first time you launch the site, it can sometimes take a bit of time before you can see your information. It also means that if the Facebook API fails, the app fails too," Warren further explained.

For more on PostPost, watch this video, created by TigerLogic:

Author

Leah McBride Mensching

Date

2010-12-07 23:04

Shaping the Future of the Newspaper


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