The World's First Social Magazine

Newspapers may be seeming like a thing of the past, but magazines won't be going anywhere anytime soon, and technology may be helping that cause.

Now your childhood dreams of being a magazine editor can be brought to life. You can turn your iPad into your very own publication thanks to an app called Flipboard.Flipboard, a free app, was released for the iPad in July. So many people wanted to download it that the servers at Flipboard were maxed out within 20 minutes.

Flipboard is basically an app that takes the news feeds from Facebook and Twitter and turns them into what the CEO of the company calls "the world's first social magazine." With this app you can trade in the links posted for the original articles and photos that can be laid out the way they might look in a magazine.

"With over 1 billion messages posted every day, social networks are quickly becoming the primary way people discover and share content on the Web. The result is a huge influx of incoming messages and links people must sort through across multiple web sites just to stay up to date," said Mike McCue, Flipboard's CEO in a press release on their site. "We believe the timeless principles of print can make social media less noisy, more visually compelling and ultimately more mainstream."

Newsweek went on to make a statement about the future of journalism with this social magazine gaining much popularity.

"It sounds simple, but it's actually pretty profound. Now anyone who is gathering up Twitter feeds is, in effect, curating a magazine. It means that we're stumbling toward a completely customized form of journalism, and it shows how the media business is being transformed not by giant conglomerates but rather by tiny shops in Silicon Valley."