Popular digital magazine app Flipboard is getting some attention from Google in the form of Google+ API support, the company announced today at the Le Web 2012 conference in London.
Google+ streams coming to Flipboard
ROBYN BECK/AFP/GETTY IMAGES - An attendee reads a newspaper article using the Flipboard app on an iPad June 5.
The support will give Flipboard users access to content streams from the search giants social network. The stream will include things like Google+ updates/posts, photos, videos and other data without having to actually visit the social network directly. Google+ is hardly the only social network to integrate with the digital magazine, with support for Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and others already available. The news of the Google+ stream does comes as bit of a surprise because Google has its own — albeit less popular — digital magazine app of its own, Google Currents.
We don’t have an exact date for when the new Google+ streaming in Flipboard will go live, nor do we know exactly when Google will begin offering a Google+ API for other developers and programs to start utilizing. However, Google VP of Product Management Bradley Horowitz, who spoke about the new Flipboard integration at Le Web, did talk a bit about why we don’t have an API yet.
Horowitz said Google doesn’t yet have good “noise” filtering controls when it comes to Google+, and the company wants to make sure it has built something that won’t cause developers to go back and rework their own creations to preserve the user experience, according to Robert Scoble.
Via TheNextWeb
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