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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

PostPost: A Facebook Newspaper With a Flipboard Feel

from Mashable

Data management and rapid application deployment solutions company TigerLogic has just launched PostPost, a real-time “social newspaper” that’s created from the links, photos and videos your friends share on Facebook.

In essence, what PostPost does is take your Facebook

newsfeed, but presents it in a way that is more manageable. PostPost also uses the Yolink search API to help you find context and backlinks within your paper.

We should make it clear that this PostPost is not the same product as PostPo.st, a social search engine that offers up results from the people you follow on Twitter and Flickr

PostPost resembles the mobile app Pulse and the iPad app Flipboard — the difference being, PostPost is accessible through your web browser.

As more of us use social networks like Facebook and Twitter

to find and share news, the traditional RSS reader is slowly getting replaced with these types of solutions.

On the surface, PostPost isn’t unlike services such as paper.li. Paper.li also just launched Facebook support for its product, but the approach that the two services take is a bit different.

PostPost uses the jQuery Masonry plugin created by David DeSandro. This makes it possible for links, videos and photos imported from the Facebook Open Graph API to be displayed in a way that resembles a more traditional broadsheet newspaper. It also means you can adjust the size of your browser window and the sections will expand or contract as needed.

This also means you can easily switch between “sections” like videos, photos and links. PostPost is planning on adding more sections and sorting options to the service as time goes on.

More after the the Jump