How Flipboard is bringing magazine layouts to the web

If there was one phrase that dominated SXSWi this year, it was "social media". Every other panel had the phrase in its title, every other attendee seemed to work in the space, and everyone wanted to tell you about how their innovative social media app was going to shake up the industry. But Mike McCue of Flipboard doesn't need to hustle. His news and social media aggregator is already being taken very seriously by a publishing industry going through bad times and looking for a new digital saviour.

Large images are the order of the day

Large images are the order of the day

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Tom May

Tom May is an award-winning journalist and editor specialising in design, photography and technology. Author of the Amazon #1 bestseller Great TED Talks: Creativity, published by Pavilion Books, Tom was previously editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. Today, he is a regular contributor to Creative Bloq and its sister sites Digital Camera World, T3.com and Tech Radar. He also writes for Creative Boom and works on content marketing projects.