Yahoo has today announced the launch of Livestand from Yahoo! for iPad, a digital newsstand providing constantly-changing content from multiple publishers, programmed according to your own interests and contexts, such as your location and your current time of day. Yahoo! doesn’t have a release date for Livestand just yet, saying only that it will be arriving in the first half of 2011, and that Livestand will bring Yahoo!’s vast digital content library to life, featuring Sports, News, Finance, Flickr, omg! and the Yahoo! Contributor Network. Here’s a rather lyrical quote from Yahoo! about why it's launching the Livestand app:

“We live in a beautifully content rich world. More than 3.5 million photos get uploaded to Flickr every day. On email we receive nearly 2.5 billion emails each day, and many of us send hundreds of texts and tweets per month. Simply put, life is digital. In order to enjoy and share all this content, people want much more than a PC experience replicated on their tablet or phone—they want something fundamentally new. As the premier digital media company, we see a clear opportunity to push the boundaries of personalization to deliver intelligent experiences specifically tailored for each individual.”

Source: Livestand from Yahoo! Your Digital Newsstand | Yodel Anecdotal