There is no doubt in my mind that streams will be a much bigger part of the future than they are now. (They won't completely replace page-based content where that is more appropriate.) Currently streams seem to be the domain of the big 'platform' players (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, maybe a feedreader for those so inclined) so I am only really have to 'keep tabs' on a couple of streams.
I think our current tools for creating and consuming streams are still relatively basic and for 'streams' to break free from these strongholds requires a lot more innovation in how we can create them, interact with them, manipulate them and transition in and of of them seamlessly.
Stop Publishing web Pages
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Re: Stop Publishing web Pages
#12I'm actually kind of tired of sites that just give a stream of data. That's why on all my projects going forward, I'm going to try to take the next step and design the page itself to be attractive as to the placement of the content---more like a magazine, than like a Reddit.
How about image based streams? May be too Pinterest-esque for you but moves more towards a different paradigm. Check us out at http://skim.me when we release first version in a few weeks.
Re: Stop Publishing web Pages
#13Streams are more an attitude shift to match how people consume content than a substantial functional shift. They still allow for permalinks; it's possible to link to any tweet directly. Stream-oriented content is about acknowledging that pages and destination sites are the wrong units of content. Content needs to respond to platforms — more than just screen sizes. Content Management Systems need to be treated as true content management systems, not page management systems. Content == data. See: John Borthwick's comments on content as information; Substance.io and Prose; Medium; NPR's API; &c. Pages are a legacy format.
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#14Streams allow people to find/stumble across information they may not have known existed. A visitor could enter (site) with a permalink to the content and then find a zillion spinoff conversations/articles - rather than forcing them to search or use poor navigation by the site owners, they could now spin themselves around the web based on streams of content... Love the idea!
Re: Stop Publishing web Pages
#15I'm actually kind of tired of sites that just give a stream of data. That's why on all my projects going forward, I'm going to try to take the next step and design the page itself to be attractive as to the placement of the content---more like a magazine, than like a Reddit.
How about image based streams? May be too Pinterest-esque for you but moves more towards a different paradigm. Check us out at http://skim.me when we release first version in a few weeks.
i think streams for image based sites, so long as the taxonomy is correct could be a killer UI. Thats one of the reasons Pinterest is moving along nicely.
Re: Stop Publishing web Pages
#16Related reading: "Streams vs. documents" -- http://web.archive.org/web/20100108034547/http://software-li...