Is Flyp the future of magazines?

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Permalink Reply by Brian Morgan on August 12, 2009 at 4:42am

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Very good medium, really enjoyed the experience, and as with most mediums - I don't think that we can say whether it is an "all or nothing" option (ie the future or a flash in the pan) - it's another "option" ... Brian Morgan.

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Permalink Reply by Douglas Karr on August 12, 2009 at 9:31am

Reminds me a bit of Blender in the dot com boom... remember magazines on CD-ROM? (Blender sold the rights to its brand and I think it's a real magazine now). People just don't get it... when you purchase a magazine or newspaper, part of the purchase is having the tangible, tactile, touchable product that you can put on your coffee table, take to the bathroom, read on a bus...

It's not all about the content.

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Permalink Reply by Cissi Sherlock on August 12, 2009 at 7:17pm

Doug,

I like the realistic blurb the the tangible (vs. the virtual) is still a real part of our existence, and still, a very real means of communicating our thoughts.

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Permalink Reply by John Belden on August 12, 2009 at 1:46pm

I took the time to read an article that caught my eye, the piece on how attractiveness drives natural selection -- fairly obvious when you think about it. My connection isn't superfast, so it took a while for the animated audiovisual presentation to load, with many interruptions while the downloading caught up with the viewing.

If this were on slate.com, it would have been all text, and I would have read what little they actually had to say in a fraction of the time, without that world-comes-to-a-grinding-halt feeling when you are waiting on a video to load.

Not really impressed.

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