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Wednesday, 16th December 2009

Google's "Fast Flip" Increases Number of News Sources Available

As noted on the Official Google Blog, Google's "Fast Flip," an experimental feature (via Google Labs) that provides "blindingly fast" overviews of news sources has increased the number of sources you can "Flip." A mobile version of Fast Flip is also available for iPhone and Android.

Now, more than 50 sources (newspapers, magazines, web outlets, news wires and TV and radio broadcasters) can be "flipped."

New additions include:

Tribune Co. newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, McClatchy Company newspapers such as the Miami Herald and the Kansas City Star, the Huffington Post, Popular Science, Reuters, Public Radio International, POLITICO and U.S. News & World Report, and Venture Beat.

Source: Official Google Blog

See Also: If you're interested in Fast Flip, you might also want to take a look at "Article Skimmer" (a prototype) from the NY Times.

Here at The Times, we often hear a common story of usage from our customers: Reading the Sunday Times, spreading out the paper on a table. Think of this application as an attempt to provide that experience anytime. It is empowering to see so much information at once, so we display as many stories as we can fit into the space of your screen.

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