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Last time I checked, a 1400m straight line would equate to a 2800m radius. And at an average human walking speed of 4km/h 1400m's still a 17-minute walk.
Huh? Wouldn't a 1400m gap between stations imply a 700m radius?
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[in] Singapore ...the stations in the CBD and destination points tend to be a lot closer together than 2000m.
If Angus' post was correct, they were talking about 2km catchment radius which implies closer to 4km between stations.
likewise downtown melbourne has about 5 stations in a ring, all at key points feeding into the tram network. some of which are only about a km apart.
Sydney, London, NY all have stations closer than 2km. Sydney has 7 CBD stations and no adjacent pair is more than about 1km apart. In fact 1km spacing is pretty common throughout the inner suburbs in Sydney.
Wider spaced stations with buses filling in just does not work as well. When I lived in Sydney it took me 40mins to travel 25km to work by rail. My wife took the same train for the first 13km and then had to bus 4km. It took her the same amount of time to get to work.
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the treatment handed out to a new poster who mistook the terms Public Address and Hard News for a public forum and got thoroughly slapped down
Was Peter referring to himself here? Because if so he has a rather odd take on "new"...
Since: May 2007
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It seems essentially the same to me - a tiled aggregate of the entries of various social networks.
Tweetdeck shows you peoples' tweets in more or less the same way that the Twitter webpage does only formatted differently. Flipboard shows you the content that is being linked to in the tweets - the images or stories, not just the links. That is significantly different, isn't it?
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.
You get the comments if you click on a Facebook story. For Facebook it really only provides a different layout (though it does show more of photo galleries which is nice). For Twitter you get a list of who has retweeted an item - it doesn't attempt to add threading to tweets.
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.
Or perhaps they have permission?
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The entry point is that tiled page I see in the clip? That's exactly like Tweetdeck.
You mean the page that looks like this: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/flipboard-ipad-app.jpg ? That's the main menu. An example of the twitter feed is http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/flipboardnpr.jpg Neither of them look much like that screenshots from that Tweetdeck page - is that page not representative of Tweetdeck?
how does Flipbook reformat the shared content, giving it a common look and feel, if the content hasn't been syndicated to RSS?
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.
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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.
Oops, sorry. Yes it basically the same level of detail as Facebook gives. Obviously I don't see that sort of linking much on Facebook.
Based on that picture, that's what Tweetdeck looks like, which is to say ghastly :-)
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!
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?
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.
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I recall other Twitter apps I looked into that included pictures, etc in the stream
Sure, but do they look like this?
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You mean it's like Facebook then? That would suit me, I like it much better than Twitter.
Well Facebook doesn't generally show you the content that people link to so no - it does more than Facebook (and it does the same with Facebook too). My main problem with it is that it's not obvious if it's showing me everything from Facebook and Twitter, in fact I'm pretty sure it isn't. But it is a much nicer experience for what it does show.
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Giovanni, I thought apps like Tweetdeck merge Twitter and Facebook and even LinkedIn update streams.
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. It's quite impressive.
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Apple don't do innovation on the product-category scale. Never have. They've never created a new class of product.
Apple created the first device to be called a PDA: the MessagePad 100 AKA Newton. The Apple II was also one of the first "home computers", if not the first.