Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Zite – personalized magazine for your mobile

Zite is an awesome mobile app for educators. It “ gives you personalized news, articles, blogs, videos and other content from a variety of both mainstream and niche publications and sites”. Zite resembles Feedly , the other mobile app we have covered in an earlier post, for they both aggregate newsfeeds and deliver them to you in such an easy and beautifully customized way.
Zite attempts to customize and deliver the type of articles you like to read in a newspaper style reading.It is Wifi- connection enabled which means that you can easily access news content with a tap of a button.






As educators , we can try Zite to make our reading experience even better. You can access the content of your favorite websites and even customize it in a newspaper style and share it with others. Invite your students to use it and enjoy the look they would have when reading the feeds of the websites they like. I am quite sure you will like this app when you try it.

Some features of Zite

Here is a list of the main features that Zite offers to its users:
  • It is free

  • It is easy to use

  • It has an intuitive interface

  • It allows its users to customize and use magazine style to read their feds

  • You can use your Twitter feed or Google Reader to create a magazine style

  • It has 1000's of magazine sections to choose from using a smart auto-suggest tool

  • You can rate content by thumbing it up or down

  • It allows you to share content you like to Twitter, Facebook and via e-mail.

  • It is compatible with iPad and requires iOS 3.2 or later.




How can i get started using Zite ?

Here is a short video tutorial to help you understand how to use Zite on you iPad




That’s it about Zite – personalized magazine for your mobile.

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