Scenario
Reading
Bob is a software engineer working at Google in Mountain View, CA. His social network includes the people he met in college, who are now spread out throughout the entire US, and also his coworkers and other acquaitances at work. After Google+ was released to the world, almost all of his coworkers began using the site for social networking in response to encouragement from within the company. Bob's other friends outside of Google are for the most part, still on Facebook, not wanting to manage two social networks simultaneously. To complicate matters further, several of Bob's friends try to maintain a presence on multiple social networks, often posting the same material on both Facebook and Google+, and sometimes also including Twitter and their blogs. Consuming all the information they produce the conventional way requires context-shifting between multiple tabs in the browser, and often noticing the same material duplicated over multiple sites. Bob has set up a Hubbub account and connected it with his sources of information beforehand, and uses it several times a day to read the material posted by his friends.
The Hubbub reader greatly simplifies Bob's life by detecting identical content posted on multiple sites and showing him only one copy of the data. To read the information, Bob has to:
NOTE: This list isn't complete yet, we should take a futher look at it.
- Read the top item in the list of data displayed.
- Move through the list, reading each item in turn.
- If desired, use the controls to like/+1/retweet/etc the read item. The backend communicates with the sources' APIs to send the requests through.