The first score Flipboard is magazine style tablet apps news, join the pulse, Zite, and Yahoo Livestand. Now the brand name competitors entered the game: Google has launched its own reading news app, Google current.
After the download is a free application and sign in with your Google account (required), You will land on the home screen app. half of the home screen is taken up by the photo feeds highlighting stories of your subscription. Other parts of the screen shows your library-by default a list of Fast Company Forbes,, and several others as a subscription-and tabs to a trending topic.
We like Google current simple, scroll-down interface. More information and trends that You add, the more you will have to swipe down. After you browse individual subscriptions, stories that are available are presented in the table of contents-style layout. Compare Flipboard Zite, with and read more like a magazine, if only because swiping gesture to get to the next page most closely mimics the experience of converting to print the page.
Perhaps the coolest feature is the current trend. You can choose to follow up the story for a variety of categories, and for every app story shows coverage from multiple sources. For example, when we click on the title for the recent shooting at Virginia Tech, we were taken to a page with coverage from various sources, including AP, Financial Times, Washington Post, and more. It feels more dynamic than the app library, which is clearly highly curated by Google.
Another awesome feature under the trend is user-generated content. When we clicked through coverage of Virginia Tech, the tab next to the story featured YouTube Videos tagged with the keyword "Virginia Tech". (This is a clip of a football match and unrelated to the shooting, to understand.) The third, called tab on, is free-style list of resources on the topic in question. For Virginia Tech, app posted a link to the home pages of universities, the Wikipedia entry, page topics in New York Times web sites, and more. Pretty cool.