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Flipboard, a nifty app that assembles social media feeds into a nicely-presented iPad magazine, is on the funding hustings and looking to capitalise on the now-emerging tech bubble 2.0.

According to Wall Street Journal blogger Kara Swisher, “sources close to” the fundraising effort – which could mean informed sources, wild guessers, or investment bankers on the make – the company is attracting a valuation of US$200 million.

The WSJ also moots some kind of subscription model (for content sourced from feeds Flipboard doesn’t own, but merely aggregates and wraps in a pretty interface).

While its basic premise isn’t anything special – the author has started to filter his Twitter account to get rid of the mass of desperately awful “e-daily” sites offered by enthusiastic self-promoters – the interface is the killer, which made Flipboard a runner-up in El Reg’s “Smartest iPad apps” last year. Whether a slice interface can substitute for prosaic details like revenue, only time will tell. ®

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