Review: Paper.li creates your personalized online newspaper

November 15, 2012

Web content is great, when you don't mind visiting a multitude of Web sites in order to peruse all that you want to see. Wouldn't it be great if you could grab the content you wanted to read and put it in one place, almost like a virtual newspaper? You can, with Paper.li, another tool in the growing online curation space. Like rival Storify, Paper.li is a free, cloud-based service, though Paper.li also offers a Pro version ($9 per month) that allows businesses of any size to add their own branding and remove ads. To use Paper.li, you'll need a Twitter or Facebook account, as you must sign in with one or the other, and you need to enter an email address as well. Then, you're up and running. Creating an online paper is easy: You simply enter the title, add a subtitle if you'd like, and then choose the frequency. You can choose to daily updates, a morning and evening edition, or a weekly paper. So far, so good. But Paper.li stumbles a bit when it comes to finding and selecting content sources for your paper. Paper.li lets you create attractive, neatly organized online newspapers from a variety of Web content. The three-column layout is attractive and seems to make sense, at first. The left column is organized by topics (such as news, business, entertainment, and more) and includes links to your accounts. I had signed in with my Facebook account and found that Paper.li didn't then let me access my Twitter account. I could access general Twitter info, using the search tool, but not tweets and other information specific to my own account. The company says this is because they don't currently link the accounts, though they plan to merge the sign-in process in the future to make it simpler. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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