Dive summary:
- According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Facebook is developing a news reader geared for mobile.
- Dubbed "Reader" for the time being, the mobile focused news aggregate will resemble popular app Flipboard by allowing users to pull news from multiple sites and flip through pages by swiping.
- Some publications like TechCrunch mistakenly predicted that the announcement of the video feature for Instagram was going to be an RSS reader from Facebook.
From the article:
"At a press event announcing a revamped Facebook News Feed in March, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others used the metaphor of a “personalized newspaper” to describe their aspiration for News Feed. Apparently, News Feed was merely a down-payment on that vision, if the WSJ’s report is correct."
