What the iPad does is it opens people’s minds to a new way of doing things. They’re actually thirsting for it. Mike McCue Read Quote
In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike. Mike McCue Read Quote
That’s why we created Flipboard as a social magazine meant for an iPad, meant for a large touch-screen device. That idea of content presented beautifully, oriented around communities and special topics of interest, is really powerful. Mike McCue Read Quote
Let’s leverage the power of the Web – don’t get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish. Mike McCue Read Quote
Personalized news aggregators are geared around connecting you to news sources; we’re about connecting you to your friends. To people you’re inspired by. To people that you’re following on Facebook and Twitter. Mike McCue Read Quote
Facebook is about seeing what your friend is doing. Twitter, you follow different people. Flipboard is about passions and interests and topics, and so it’s the same social web that all of these products are letting you look at, but Flipboard is coming at it from a more topical point of view. Mike McCue Read Quote
I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management. Mike McCue Read Quote
Articles themselves are condensed to narrow columns of text across 5, 6, 7 pages, and ads that are really distracting for the reader, so it’s not a pleasant experience to ‘curl up’ with a good website. Mike McCue Read Quote
I had been reading magazines a lot, and I love magazines, and so I was always asking myself why is it that these gorgeous articles just don’t translate well to the web? Presentation was one aspect of it. Mike McCue Read Quote
