I'm a fan of Flipboard and I use the IPad app on a daily basis to browse through Facebook updates, tweets, news and fresh images. I'm also a fan of Danish basketball and I need a way to follow the different Danish online basketball media on my IPad. So - why not aggregate online media feeds and pull them from Flipboard? The app works by adding different RSS feeds to Google Reader; however, pages in Flipboard look boring. No images. Missing descriptions here and there. That is not what I want. The magazine experience, please! So in order to get this, I've now remixed a few RSS feeds utilizing Yahoo Pipes and a bit of YQL. What I do is basically two things:
- If an RSS image is too small, pick up a bigger one if available
- Insert an image tag at the start of the RSS description field.
And now my feed looks just right. Two examples of Yahoo Pipes RSS rewrites:
A few observations along the way: Flipboard wants images to match the Flipboard design and filters out those images that do not meet the size requirements. After some trial and error, I think the image size rules are:
- Minimum 120 px width and 100 px height
- The ratio of width to height must be less than 200%, e.g., an image 200 px high can have a max width of 399 px
- If the image height is at least 300 px, rule #2 does not apply. I've seen 300 px high images with a 1500 px width.
You can try my test RSS feed here: http://feeds.stonor.dk/flipboard/flipboard-img.xml It also looks like images wrapped in div tags are filtered out. A clean img tag works best. However, I've not spent time exploring this in depth.
Good luck Flipboard-fixing your own feeds.
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Hello. I have been following this post and I find it very interesting. Pity not continue with the blog. Not if you could help me on something that I'm creating. It turns out that want to increase the viewing size of the images to the facebook feed. I've tried with regex option and locating the original size 130x130 eg change it to another, for example 600x600. But to run the pipe, the image is still in its original format.
The origin of the source is a facebook feed.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=fc3a01bd253331e0f4cda16e2629ddc8&_render=rss
It could help me?
Flipboard only launched its Android app recently. The app allows users to browse through their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams, as well as Google Reader feeds in a beautiful flipping manner. It also consolidates and curates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy to go through everything. As a blogger, using this app and browsing through interesting news content daily will give you fresh ideas on what to write about in your next blog post.
Flipboard only launched its Android app recently. The app allows users to browse through their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams, as well as Google Reader feeds in a beautiful flipping manner. It also consolidates and curates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy to go through everything. As a blogger, using this app and browsing through interesting news content daily will give you fresh ideas on what to write about in your next blog post.
flipboard only launched its Android app recently. The app allows users to browse through their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams, as well as Google Reader feeds in a beautiful flipping manner. It also consolidates and curates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy to go through everything. As a blogger, using this app and browsing through interesting news content daily will give you fresh ideas on what to write about in your next blog post.
Flipboard only launched its Android app recently. The app allows users to browse through their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams, as well as Google Reader feeds in a beautiful flipping manner. It also consolidates and curates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy to go through everything. As a blogger, using this app and browsing through interesting news content daily will give you fresh ideas on what to write about in your next blog post.
Flipboard only launched its Android app recently. The app allows users to browse through their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams, as well as Google Reader feeds in a beautiful flipping manner. It also consolidates and curates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy to go through everything. As a blogger, using this app and browsing through interesting news content daily will give you fresh ideas on what to write about in your next blog post.
Flipboard only launched its Android app recently. The app allows users to browse through their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams, as well as Google Reader feeds in a beautiful flipping manner. It also consolidates and curates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy to go through everything. As a blogger, using this app and browsing through interesting news content daily will give you fresh ideas on what to write about in your next blog post.
Flipboard only launched its Android app recently. The app allows users to browse through their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams, as well as Google Reader feeds in a beautiful flipping manner. It also consolidates and curates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy to go through everything. As a blogger, using this app and browsing through interesting news content daily will give you fresh ideas on what to write about in your next blog post.
Flipboard only launched its Android app recently. The app allows users to browse through their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams, as well as Google Reader feeds in a beautiful flipping manner. It also consolidates and curates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy to go through everything. As a blogger, using this app and browsing through interesting news content daily will give you fresh ideas on what to write about in your next blog post.
Flipboard only launched its Android app recently. The app allows users to browse through their Facebook, Twitter and Google+ streams, as well as Google Reader feeds in a beautiful flipping manner. It also consolidates and curates a stream of important stories for those who are too busy to go through everything. As a blogger, using this app and browsing through interesting news content daily will give you fresh ideas on what to write about in your next blog post.
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