Google has just launched "Fast Flip" at the TechCrunch 50 technology conference in San Francisco.  Fast Flip is a web based application that allows users to browse quickly through news stories from the websites of Google's three dozen partners.  

Google Fast Flip

This is cool..  I just checked it out.   You view just the opening headline and the front page of the article and you can quickly "flip" to the next article.  The articles are sorted into by topic or source or what is popular.

I am a media and news junkie and I found this a quick a easy way to absorb a lot of information and to find articles that interest me.

What is also interesting is that Google is sourcing the content from partners who will share in the revenue and this will drive users to the websites of the partner.  This seems fairer that just aggregating news stories in the case of Google News.

Here is the link to Fast Flip

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I have joined the Twitter band wagon and are in the Twitterverse.    Twitter has seem explosive growth, seeing month growth of 1,382% in early 2009 according to Nielsen.    However it is also well known that about 50% of users give up sending tweets after about a month and only 40% of users are retained.

Some see Twitter as the future of communication and yes I agree to an extent that is excellent means to track what your friends are doing and is fantastic means to get instant news updates especially when a big story breaks.  However from my experience Twitter seems to be dominated by celabarties who want to tell the world what they are up to.  Yes sure it is fascinating to know what Lance Armstrong had for breakfast, however is it earth shattering?   However I can see a use for Twitter to say get messages to thousands of people instantly in the case  of an emergency such as a bush fire threat. 

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