Posts by giovanni tiso
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"and ancient"
Nothing ancient about it. Repeat after me. "The Web: it's a scroll, not a book." (Which by the way the makers of Twitter understand perfectly well.)
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It's not "silly", just different.
It's not different, it's silly. You can have that functionality without the image of the Web page flipping as if it was a book or magazine page. It ain't how the Web works. It's a static, conceptually limited yuppie aesthetic.
And I do dislike having to use the conventional Facebook interface. It's fugly.
That it may be. But it tells me at a glance who posted what and how many people liked it and how many people commented on it and what the last piece of the conversation was, without my having to do any further clicking or turning of pages or jumping about. It's brilliantly usable. And - to repeat myself - geared towards the social value added of participating in those conversations. It seems to me at the glance of that clip that Flipbook is much more geared towards access to the links than adding to the discussions that they generate.
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But how could it get permission on all the things that are shared, in real time? That functionality seems to be implied in the videoclip.
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Neither of them look much like that screenshots from that Tweetdeck page - is that page not representative of Tweetdeck?
It seems essentially the same to me - a tiled aggregate of the entries of various social networks. Note though how it differs from Facebook - which is a vertically structured ever-updating feed in which each entry is a potential threaded discussion, emphasising not only the shared content, but the social value-added. I really do like that about Facebook, and find it much more of a native idiom to the Web than the remediation of the book or magazine form, let alone with silly animations of the pages actually turning.
No idea. I believe it's done on Flipboard's servers. Whether they are reformatting RSS feeds or getting the content via some other mechanism I don't know.
If they are acquiring content and republishing content then it would pose very pressing copyright questions - that's why I imagine it must be done via RSS, which is an opt-in affair.
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If the Tweetdeck you're talking about looks like this: http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/ then yes it is ghastly and no Flipboard doesn't look like that!
The entry point is that tiled page I see in the clip? That's exactly like Tweetdeck. Flipbook appears to do many more things besides, obviously, and it will be a matter of taste. For instance personally I like the automatic switch from portrait to landscape, but not as much as I dislike the turn-page transitions.
I'm not sure if it's based on RSS or not. There are a limited number of sources - I can't see any way to add an specific RSS feed directly (that's an obvious future feature though). So no, it wouldn't work with Public Address.
The sense of my question was: how does Flipbook reformat the shared content, giving it a common look and feel, if the content hasn't been syndicated to RSS? I know Russell wants people to view Public Address at this URL and with all the ancillary information - including ads. It's a legitimate wish, even though I don't run ads I don't fully syndicate my blog either. I'd be interested to know if Flipbook gets around that.
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Size vs. endurance, sure. We've all been there.
Coat, etc.
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(A question about Flipboard: from the little promo and from what you're saying, SteveH, it seems to reformat the content inside itself. But that's based on RSS, yes? So for instance it wouldn't work with... Public Address. Can anybody confirm?)
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Well Facebook doesn't generally show you the content that people link to so no - it does more than Facebook
I don't want to see the whole content (which is why I don't read full RSS content on Google reader), just the title and beginning and maybe a picture so I can decide whether to click through. Which is exactly what Facebook does. I wouldn't want Facebook to start giving me more than that - so on consideration I think I might stay with the status quo.
Sure, but do they look like this?
Based on that picture, that's what Tweetdeck looks like, which is to say ghastly :-)
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In fact, Tweetdeck seems to do the opposite - turn Facebook into Twitter.
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What Flipboard does that I haven't seen from the likes of Tweetdeck is that it takes content from the stuff that people post links to. So if someone tweets a picture via twitpic you see the picture not just the tweet. Similarly a link to an article results in an excerpt from the article
You mean it's like Facebook then? That would suit me, I like it much better than Twitter.