Hands on with Taglists for iPhone and iPad
I found a review online about an app that lets you tag content from different sources with a hashtag, which then allows users (any user) to view that tagged content as a live stream.
What piqued my interest was the notion that it would be possible for PBS, as a content provider, to tag our video, photo, news content with certain category tags. Then anybody could stream that curated content to their device. Or, if they have an AppleTV, to their big screen television. AKA: A new TV channel is born based around a subject!
For example:
- Washington Week, Newshour, & Frontline each individually tag their content with #PBSElection2012. Anybody who wanted to see PBS’s election coverage then plays that stream and they get all that content personally curated into one stream and pushed to their device.
- Masterpiece tags all their different branded shows with #PBSMasterpieceClassic, #PBSMasterpieceContemporary, #PBSMasterpieceMystery and a user gets each one of those genres streamed to them.
- All our news partners each tag their content about a certain subject, #PBSSOPA. They could tag their news articles, their photos, and video. Then all that content doesn’t have to be searched for in many locations anymore. A person just types in the hashtag and all that content becomes a playlist on their device. The same hashtag could be used on-air and on twitter to create a total experience around one topic.
The beautiful thing is that users, if we wanted, could add that same hashtag to their own content and it would show up in the stream. That means a local station could run a story (AKA: #WETAHurricaneAlberto) and they could push stories about the hurricane with that tag. But then local users could add their own photos & videos with the same tag to the stream creating a robust local news experience that grows all on it’s own.
This would blow search out of the water. You might never have to search for a main subject again from a content provider. Instead of a search box, the main page might just have curated hashtag links. Clicking on a link provides a stream of content about a specific subject from multiple and varied sources - photos, news stories, video, etc.
No more broken searches or pushing users to other sites for different content. It just all reveals itself in one neat coherent stream.
Source: imore.com
