Ziibii (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, RSS News ticker)
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Description
"Enjoy a new way of staying in-touch and in-the-loop with your friends, photos, and the world around you with Ziibii.
Ziibii blends Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube - plus your favorite web feeds - to deliver an iPhone experience unlike any other. Ziibii is easy-to-use, fun to explore, and offers plenty of unique features.
• With just a few taps, you can customize Ziibii with a virtually unlimited selection of your favorite web content (via RSS). Add as much - or as little - as you like, the choice is yours.
• Want to see more about a headline that’s floating by? A simple tap opens up a preview and another tap takes you to the full story and website. Photos open with just a tap, too!
• You can speed up, or slow down your river of news to get in depth with a story. Customize how the information is delivered to you with speed controls, the color of the river, or stack your rafts in a row for a list view. You choose how you want to see your favorite web feeds!
• Ziibii works hand-in-hand with Twitter and your email. You can send a tweet about content that floats by on Ziibii to your followers and share stories and thoughts through email.
• Ziibii is now a featured app in The Zumobi Network. Tap the Z at the bottom of the app to access the Z Gallery and find other Zumobi apps to keep you connected.
Download Ziibii now, and start enjoying your river of friends, photos, and feeds!
Your suggestions & comments help us improve Ziibii. Please visit Zumobi.com to share more feedback with us!"
What's New in Version 1.1
"With user feedback – Ziibii has made some improvements!
· Improved performance in Ziibii List view – scroll side to side with immediate feedback
· Easier selection of river control speeds with the new toggle function
· Immediately slow down the river with a single tap, making it easier to read content
· Scroll upstream and downstream by dragging your finger up and down the river while paused
· River color can be customized – new options include Blue, Lava, Pink and Plasma
· Now featured in The Zumobi Network – tap the Z at the bottom for more Zumobi apps"
Customer Reviews
Different and fun!
Takes feeds in a whole new direction. I wouldn't want to us this for my can't miss feeds, but it's great for general surfing.
My thought is that it would be even more interesting as a discovery service as oposed to a subscription service. I already have a simple rss reader that I will probably continue to use. But this app would be great if it had a random mode (already does with default river), but make the default river learn what I'm interested in. So that over time I'll have a custom feed of interesting things.
So close but so very, very, very far
I hate to give this app such a middling review, because I think it's a great idea with awesome potential. But it's totally, completely useless to me as is. In fact if I was basing this on current usability I'd give it only one or two stars.
The problem, and it's a huge one for me, is that the feeds aren't chronological. It's giving me feeds from today, from last week, from July(!). And there's no way to tell when the feed is from without opening it. Also, when you flick to go from one page to the next in the list, it's extremely slow and glitchy. You also can't adjust the speed if the river, which goes faster than I would like.
All in all, I'm hugely impressed with the concept, and hugely dissapointed with the execution. Please improve the app in future updates!!
UPDATE: my bad, you totally can change the speed of the river, and it's super easy. there's no setting to change it but you can just use your finger to speed it up, slow it down, put it in reverse, etc. I still have to say it's useful only to browse, not to see the latest posts on the websites and blogs of your choice. It's completely erratic about what it shows you and I still can't get it to stop listing posts from July, which is driving me nuts.
Great new way to keep up to date and read RSS feeds
I really love this app! I'd been looking for something that would let me consolidate feeds and this lets me input my RSS feeds, Twitter, Facebook, and more. The app will show you all your feeds flowing by on a 'river' or you can read them simply in list format. I have one minor complaint about not being able to remove (I tried swiping, tapping, etc. and can't figure it out if the function is actually there) lists of suggested feeds that come pre-programmed, and having to scroll down past them to input or manage your own feeds. This is a minor inconvenience though. This is a really great app right now and I'm looking forward to future updates.
- Category: Social Networking
- Updated May 09, 2009
- Current Version: 1.1
- 2.2 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: Zumobi Inc.
- © 2008 Zumobi Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.0 or later.
