The Evolution Of Streams
No this is not a post about fishing.
Sites like Facebook, Twitter and now Google+ have all adopted the "stream" as their core user interface for displaying content. Similarly, most enterprise software vendors like Socialtext, Jive, Moxie, Tibco, IBM, etc have also added some form of stream to their (our) products. However, today streams are mainly "Activity Streams" which show in real time what is happening, and provide some type of filtering options and interaction methods.
I envision the evolution of streams will include different types of streams to help manage the flow of content, including:
- Interest Streams - Display information from the people and topics that you care about the most, and will do so without a lot of manual filtering.
- Attention Streams - Will show the items that you need to take action on ASAP. These will be most important at work, and I think of them as the evolution of GTD.
- Similarly, I think Event Streams can become the next phase of calendar and scheduling.
I have a lot of thoughts on this that I'm going to trickle out over the next little while, but for now I wanted to establish the idea... Interest Streams, Attention Streams and Event Streams.
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Sites like Facebook, Twitter and now Google+ have all adopted the "stream" as their core user interface for displaying content. Similarly, most enterprise software vendors like Socialtext, Jive, Moxie, Tibco, IBM, etc have also added some form of stream to their (our) products. However, today streams are mainly "Activity Streams" which show in real time what is happening, and provide some type of filtering options and interaction methods.
I envision the evolution of streams will include different types of streams to help manage the flow of content, including:
- Interest Streams - Display information from the people and topics that you care about the most, and will do so without a lot of manual filtering.
- Attention Streams - Will show the items that you need to take action on ASAP. These will be most important at work, and I think of them as the evolution of GTD.
- Similarly, I think Event Streams can become the next phase of calendar and scheduling.
I have a lot of thoughts on this that I'm going to trickle out over the next little while, but for now I wanted to establish the idea... Interest Streams, Attention Streams and Event Streams.
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