A varied layout makes your favorite topics look like a magazine. The website also gives you a variety of layouts for stories to keep it visually interesting as you browse headlines. It uses a parallax effect that makes transitioning to large images a smooth experience as you scroll down the page. For example, image-heavy sources such as National Geographic give you high-res images that take up the width of the page, with captions and headlines that stay out of the way of the image content. Most desktops don't have touchscreens, so you won't have that flipping action on the Web, but that's fine because the new website makes the content extremely accessible for mouse and keyboard setups. Physically swiping the page on your tablet or smartphone showed a page-turning animation, letting you "flip" through stories and topics. What already made Flipboard stand out on mobile was the way it laid out content like a magazine. Late last week, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue came by CNET's offices in San Francisco to give us a look at Flipboard on the Web.
With the addition of the website, it's now possible to track stories all day as Flipboard syncs across all your devices.įlipboard already had 40 million users per month on mobile ( iOS | Android ), but that number is likely to grow now that there's a more convenient way to try it out. Starting today at, you can pick topics and read stories in a format optimized for the desktop, but with that magazine feel that's made the apps so successful on smartphones and tablets. Popular mobile news app Flipboard has finally made the jump to the Web with a website you can access from any browser.
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