I discovered something the other day that made my media scanning days less daunting: Google Fast Flip. I’m in love.
If you haven’t heard, Google Fast Flip is one of the newest ideas to come out of Google Labs. It’s their answer to making articles YOU want to read NOW easily accessible without loading media-rich content through your browser (which can take 10-20 seconds, depending what Internet speed you have.) Fast Flip lets you browse through all recent news, combining print and online articles, as well as individual feeds from top publications all over the country and beyond. Fast Flip also does what many search engines do now: make the experience personal for the reader. For example, if you are reading a lot of technological news, Fast Flip will show you more content in that topic. It’s pretty darn cool if you ask me. Not only does it “remember” what I like to read, it makes finding and reading those articles much faster, and I’ve been enjoying learning about other publications I normally wouldn’t browse. And they keep adding more and more partners to the site, which means more publications to get content from. Right now I can quickly breeze through top articles from the Washington Post, BBC News, Bloomberg.com, US Weekly Magazine, etc., and if I want to read more than the few paragraphs presented, I can always go to the link on the bottom of the page and click that to go to the full article with comments.
What better way to get up-to-date on all the latest news? Do you know of other services that are presenting similar concepts?
