Group items tagged

a “visualization” option

scroll through one headline at a time

at a speed that’s much faster than scrolling up-and-down the page

What is the best way to sift through a stream of information?

list view

can be overwhelming

One of the hottest areas of search right now is real time search, which attempts to find results based on what is happening right now

There is something about human nature which makes us want to prioritize information by how recent it is, and that is the fundamental appeal of real time search.

The default, or at least the starting point, for most real time search engines is simply to put the most recent results up top and then keep pushing then down in a free-flowing river of information as new results which match the query come in.

But as with Web 2.0, the real secret of success in Government 2.0 is thinking about government as a platform. If there’s one thing we learn from the technology industry, it’s that every big winner has been a platform company: someone whose success has enabled others, who’ve built on their work and multiplied its impact. Microsoft put “a PC on every desk and in every home,” the internet connected those PCs, Google enabled a generation of ad-supported startups, Apple turned the phone market upside down by letting developers loose to invent applications no phone company would ever have thought of. In each case, the platform provider raised the bar, and created opportunities for others to exploit.