{"id":9627,"date":"2009-09-15T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-15T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T18:25:00","slug":"google-labs-fast-flip-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/9627-google-labs-fast-flip-now-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Labs Fast Flip now live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fastflip.googlelabs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Labs Fast Flip<\/a> is now live. The service aims to streamline the process of viewing online news by presenting overviews of the headline stories from a selection of leading newspaper publishers. Currently 36 publishers are providing content to the service, with plans to add more in the future.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to provide users with a news browsing experience akin to flipping through a physical newspaper or magazine, but with a greater variety of sources instantly available. Google hopes to encourage people to spend more time reading online through the service, as well as provide publishers with a new means to generate traffic.<\/p>\n<p>The service appears to work by taking a snapshot of the webpage carrying a news article, and uploading it to the Fast Flip user interface (UI) as an image. This eliminates the loading times of web pages with multiple elements. Should a reader wish to view the article in depth, they click on the image and are redirected to the source page.<\/p>\n<p>Fast Flip divides the news into a number of categories such as recent, recommended, most viewed, and headlines. The news is also divided by popularity and source. Being a Google Labs experiment, it is likely that the UI will be constantly refined.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also sign in with a Google account. By tagging articles they particularly liked, Fastflip will begin to generate recommendations. Users can provide feedback on their experience of the service and suggest improvements at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.googlelabs.com\/\">Google Labs page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=192255\"><strong>Google Fast Flip discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Flip aims to change the way online news is browsed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}