Andy,
I think the point you're making is extremely valuable. I've been
posting recently about lifestreaming apps, and the need for new
paradigms for designing time-based social media. The user experience
in lifestreaming (twitter, friendfeed, etc) involves message and
presence-related issues, notifications, message addressing (@reply,
direct), grouping, channels, and embedded media in a river or flow-
based view that breaks the framework set up in web-page based social
media.
Swurl is interesting, for its calendar view of user posts:
http://gravity7.swurl.com/timeline
Even more cool is dipity, which uses a horizontal timeline: http://www.dipity.com/gravity7
(also check the flipbook mode; both are cool-looking but add little
in terms of utility)
And of course most of us use desktop apps or mobile for tweeting,
where the scrollbar is a much more effective navigation mode than
paging back through older posts.
cheers,
adrian
http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/
Andy,
Now we're just coming out of that and thinking a bit differently
again, but I think the ripples of 'page design' are still prevalent.
All the multitouch stuff is the first really new set of interactions
I've seen for a long time - the other sensor and camera-based stuff
has been around for decades. Multitouch presents a whole new and
interesting set of interactions (and I'm looking forward to Dan's
book on it!)
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