Following the preview website we made last summer, we just launched the full site for Knoll Antenna™ Workspaces.

iPad-based news reading apps are a dime a dozen these days.

Unfortunately, while many of them differ from an aesthetic/usability standpoint, they all generally present the same types of content in the same way. Strip out some text, pull out an image, and display the result in a little box. The end result is something that gives you little snippets of information devoid of context. I like seeing the web in the way it was originally intended — the font, the layout, the image arrangement, everything. The problem is that web pages take a few seconds to load. Every time you click, you have to wait, and this makes casual browsing of *real* web content very difficult.

Percolater is an iPad news reader app that does the waiting up front, so you don’t have to. What you get is full screen previews of the pages you’re friends are sharing on Twitter (or items from your Google Reader account) that you can flip through as fast as sifting through a stack of paper, even when you’re without a network connection.

We recently demoed the app at an Apple-sponsored Stanford iOS app showcase, and got some really great feedback from Yahoo! researchers, Apple employees, and the Stanford community. Remarkably, we had two users tell us that while they enjoyed Flipboard, one of the best designed iPad reader apps available, they said they liked Percolater better. Aww, shucks!

You can grab Percolater from the iOS app store.