APPOLICIOUS ADVISOR RATING:
3 of the 5 bars price: FreeTASTY: Hitpad themes trends and displays related news, videos, photos and tweets.BUMMER: There is no available customization, such as the creation of your own flows or save searches.COOL: The app claims to customize the content according to your interests.One of the most recent applications to enter the market of news curation for iPad is Hitpad - see what happens. Hitpad is designed to give new users that they need, looking for a trend of subjects and the analysis of the sources, without requiring any effort part of the user. Users willing to relinquish control of the news, they see should be like this Hitpad selects topics for them, but control freaks will not like the inability to customize.
Hitpad displays its themes trends selected in the top or bottom on the screen, depending on your orientation. If there is a subject on which you want to learn more, operator that it provides five swipe capable and scrollable columns that provide news, videos, photos, web links, and the results of Twitter for this keyword. The default application is "top stories", but there are also categories pre-loaded - including news, sports and the U.S. and the world - for further restricting your sources. When users want to read an article, the app launches inline web page from the original source, something which should please media.
I found the concept of the development of five columns to be an interesting way to display news, but I'm not sure that its results helps users to really stay abreast of current events. The videos seemed to derive mainly from YouTube and were not related to the other topic in the sharing of a keyword. It's fine for entertainment and stories of sports, the results were often inappropriate for hard news. The same issue occurred in the sections of web and photo links. In this regard, the app becomes a reference to a new pure aggregator tool.
Even if Hitpad clearly indicates that it wishes to put forward users minimal effort, my main problem with the app is that it is lacking in customization options. You can create your own stream, save your searches, or reorder the columns (some people don't care about Twitter, which displays in the second position).
Get the concept of the Hitpad is to do the work for you, and the app claims that it will be to customize your results after your interests. I have authorized the app access to my Twitter feed, but I did see any change in the topics presented to me. I don't know if the customization is provided over time (there no system of rating for stories or topics that you love), but users of customization of the app at their convenienceI'm not sure that it paste long enough to know.
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