Taptu - DJ Your News
Taptu is a social news reader that puts all of the stuff that
interests you into a single application. Taptu lets you add your
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the content from your favorite web
sites and blogs (via RSS feeds or Twitter) and transforms them
into visual streams.
Features:
- Supports Android Tablets (Honeycomb) with special
Widget support
- Discover streams on your favorite topics from a wide
variety of web sites, blogs, newspapers and magazines in the StreamStore
- Search for RSS Feeds using Bing and Taptu will convert into
streams
- Google Reader: Import up to 100 of your RSS feeds from
Google Reader and convert them into Streams
- DJ Your News: Mash, mix, and merge your feeds into one
stream. For example, you can take 10 different feeds, blend them into
one stream, rename the stream and watch the stories flow into one place
- Add as many Facebook or Twitter accounts as you want, add
your LinkedIn account as well
- Update your status, Like and Comment from your Facebook
stream: See something a friend has sent that you want to Like or
Comment on? Do it right inside the app
- Tweet, RT, Quote a Tweet from your Twitter stream: Someone
you follow on Twitter has tweeted an interesting tweet, Quote it and
add your comments or RT directly from Taptu
- Web Watcher Streams: Taptu has 'web watcher' technology.
This allows it to watch web sites that have no RSS feed and no mobile
presence and turn their content into streams
- Post a Status Update, Like and Comment from your Linkedin
stream: A colleague or a friend of yours has posted something you think
your own friends should know about, you can Like it or Comment on it
from Taptu
- Share with friends: Share stories with your friends on
Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin
- See full articles that friends share via Twitter and
Facebook: Taptu will convert links your friends share into a full
article view
- Bookmark articles to read later, or save to Instapaper
- Widgets for both Honeycomb and Gingerbread for your home
screen. Multiple widgets configurable in several ways
- Customize preferences such as order of the Streams, font
size, Shake to refresh
- Fast, even on slow 2G networks
Verdict:
Taptu is a competent news aggregator that
retrieves information from a wide range of sources, presenting it in a
visually appealing way.
 7/10
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Last Updated Tuesday, July 31 2012 @ 01:08 AM EDT
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