The 10 Social News Apps You Need to Try

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SkyGrid — This venture-backed startup built all of its news apps around a patented “Information Velocity” algorithm that highlights the fastest-changing stories on the Web. The Android version of SkyGrid has become one of the most popular news apps in the Android Market. Pros: Lets you subscribe to general topics such as “Fitness” or “Apple” as well as specific publications. Cons: As a company, SkyGrid has been around since 2005, and its first iOS app came out in early 2010, before most of the other news readers. But in terms of its design, the iPad version of SkyGrid is a too-flattering imitation of Flipboard. Also, some users may balk at seeing so many ads inside a news-reader app (though you can’t really blame a startup for trying to monetize a free service).

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Author: Wade Roush

Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco. Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.) I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia. I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats. My personal site: waderoush.com My social media coordinates: Twitter: @wroush Facebook: facebook.com/wade.roush LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/waderoush Google+ : google.com/+WadeRoush YouTube: youtube.com/wroush1967 Flickr: flickr.com/photos/wroush/ Pinterest: pinterest.com/waderoush/