Facebook to make News Reader app
Published on: Wednesday, 26 June 2013 //
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This app (called as the ' Reader app') is said to be similar to a popular app 'Flipboard' which allows users to create their own custom magazines by logging in through their social media accounts.
Facebook has recently launched 'clickable hashtags'. Users can click on the hashtags and are taken to a feed related to the tagged topic and see what others are talking about.
Facebook will announce more hashtag features in the coming weeks, which will include a list of trending tags also.
Facebook said that the new app, which has been worked upon for more than a year, will not be released anytime soon.
Google is planning to shutdown its Google Reader RSS service in March, so other software compaies and individual software developers are coming up to provide users with creative alternatives. Digg, AOL and Feedly have already launched their alternatives to Google reader.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that he plans to transform the NewsFeed feature of the website into 'the most personalized newspaper'. He added that it should have a first page but also allow the user to drill down to any topic they want.
Hope to see this new Facebook news reader app in market soon.
