Flipboard, the award-winning "social magazine" built for the Apple iPad, has released a major update that includes richer social features and faster browsing.

Flipboard, the award-winning "social magazine" built for the Apple iPad, has released a major update that includes richer social features and faster browsing.

The update adds Google Reader (the "most-requested feature") and Flickr feeds as well as fuller two-way interaction with Facebook and Twitter networks.

"You can now create new status updates, post photos, and even share Flipboard pages across Twitter, Facebook and Google Reader, and you can compose a new post from any where inside Flipboard," wrote Jon Virtes, Flipboard's community manager, in a blog post. Watch a video demo below.

Aesthetically, Flipboard 1.1 looks more like a print magazine now, with fully justified text with hyphenation and faster browsing between pages. This coincides with improvements in Flipboard Pages, a beta feature that displays web content in a magazine layout. Now users can tap any headline and be directed to the entire website, rather than just view a preview of the story. Flipboard Pages is currently being tested with nine publishers.

Flipboard, which in November, was and allows users to see links, articles, and photos from an array of social services (like Facebook and Twitter) aggregated and re-formatted to look like a personalized digital magazine.

See PCMag's review of the , and a video of the new one in action below.