Some notes I jotted down in response to JB’s treatise on the stream
JB’s Post: http://bit.ly/eAL2Z
Is 15-20% traffic via social distribution a new phenomenon or just a phenomenon that is newly trackable? Perhaps social distribution was always a traffic driver, but it used happen via email, instant messenger, and harder to track channels? Even an organic google search for omgpop leading to a hit on omgpop.com might classify as social distribution—word of mouth is probably the true driver of many such searches.
Love prezi ;)
It seems one of the points John is driving towards is real time as the solution to overflow, “now” as the filter. Ideally, I want a contextual filter for the deluge of data in my stream, but the “now” filter is an acceptable substitute, I think. If this is to be the filter, I think AC’s “persistence” score will be an important complementary filter to fill me in on the important bits I missed when I was not tuned in to the “now” filter.
Disqus needs to go realtime—I just thought this and then read Fred’s comment and realized that email is quite near real time.
“the one thing that you really didn’t weave into this is the role of mobile.
twitter’s shortcode is the most used shortcode in the US. that’s a telling piece of data.
this real time stream is with us all the time, and it would not happen without mobility” — important point Fred makes here. I wonder how much of the solution is hardware, how much is mobile data infrastructure (towers and such), how much is software? I’m sure they are all important, but are the infrastructure and devices sufficient yet?
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