Today, we dig into the nitty-gritty of Surf, a new app by Flipboard. We document what it is, how it works, and areas where the experience could be improved.
“I wish everyone could see my browsing habits” said nobody ever.
That’s not what this is. It’s more of a feed aggregator / reader with social features, framed as a browser of sorts.
The main thing it’s used for is feed curation and content discovery. You can basically use anything with a feed as a source, then aggregate and filter things.
It’s kind of like a news reader version of Yahoo Pipes almost.
Maybe it’s this one, maybe it’s the next one, but I do think these are the types of solutions to several fediverse problems from either new user or experienced user that has some levels of expected functionality in a client that browses “social media feeds”.
other side of the coin is that the do Everything apps made by single for profit entity means there will build incentive to attack it, copy it, etc. and all that info can be compromised…
