Flipboard's Mike McCue on Life Over the Last 36 Hours and What's Coming Soon

To say that Flipboard -- the new iPad application that ports users’ social media into a sleek magazine-like layout -- was well-received at its launch yesterday would be understating things considerably. Within hours, so many users had tried to download the application that "Flipboard over capacity" became a common, grumbled refrain on Twitter. "It was like trying to get a line of people a mile long through one door," says Flipboard cofounder Mike McCue, who is still known to many in Silicon Valley as the former CEO of TellMe. It's not over yet. I talked with McCue just now about these last 36 hours, and what's next for the company.

22 July 2010•9 mins read
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