Facebook prepares his paper: here comes "Paper" in the wake of Flipboard and Yahoo! Digest

It will be a newsmagazine browsable with social content, the culmination of the "Paper" born from the newsfeed of the network. Provided mobile apps and maybe a web application

AFTER the announcement of Marissa Mayer , CEO of Yahoo! , which has just introduced the world to his Digest of news curated by an editorial staff , it's the turn of Mark Zuckerberg. He speaks at least a year , but this time a news aggregator weblog Facebook, on the heels of Flipboard but also services such as Google News , it would be in the pipeline .

According to the website Re / code , Facebook will arrive by January Paper , a service that will offer users customized news , extrapolated from information sites , but also the status of your contacts on the social platform. The new product is expected to be very similar to Flipboard , an app platform that functions as a container of information Flip through a magazine staff available to provide the news according to their own interests , the selected sources and to their contacts on social networks, from Fb to Twitter.

Paper could be a mobile application or an independent online service also adapted to mobile experiences . The launch should take place in the coming weeks . The product would be the culmination of the project called " Reader" which has worked for several years, the team that is behind the flow of news from Facebook, the News Feed , already the subject of a profound redesign ( in look and in the algorithm ) last year. Facebook Paper, stronger billion or more members of the social network , could give a hard time to similar services like Flipboard ( 100 million users ) and Pulse (30 million) , as well as the recent Yahoo! News Digest which is not an automated news aggregator , but a magazine of news selected by journalists .