![]() Well, with luck, it won't end up with another dud like Facebook Poke, which it launched in December 2012 in response to the growing popularity of the ephemeral messaging app Snapchat. To that end, apparently, Facebook is looking to match the success of Flipboard in the social news reading app space. Both essentially act as aggregators of rich media content, displaying a mix of news stories from publications like the New York Times or the Washington Post, along with status updates from Facebook users - all in a visually stunning “paper-like” format hearkening back to a time before digital devices.Īccording to a source familiar with the service's development, Paper may be launched before the end of this month, either as a standalone mobile app or as a Web app optimized for mobile devices.Īs reported by The Wall Street Journal back in June last year, the upcoming news reader is closely overseen by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who intends to turn the social network into "the best personalized newspaper in the world." Paper and Flipboard share a number of similarities, according to this person. ![]() The service is called Paper, and it's said to bear more than a passing resemblance to the popular magazine-format social network aggregation app Flipboard: ![]() All of the templates are in printable PDF format and you can feed them through your printer twice (front and back) to get two-sided lined paper if needed. Facebook is set to launch its very own mobile news reading service, according to a new report by Re/code. They are a great stand-in for basic wide ruled or college ruled notebook paper in a pinch.
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