Musika was launched in September 2010 and allows users to listen to music free using a live-feed stream from a catalog of 2.6 million tracks.
Both have the web content (iTunes, apps, YouTube) to feed a TV stream.
By offering users an option to see all recent activity, Facebook is partially reverting to a feature that it had eliminated years ago, when users could easily toggle back and forth between the news feed and a stream of all activity.
For many users, the News Feed has turned into a stream of irrelevant updates shared by people they hardly know after years of accumulating friends.
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The reason is the Internet needs to feed its maw with a continuous stream of catchy stories.
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The LulzSec twitter feed, which usually provides a stream of commentary on all matters related to the group, has been silent for the last eight hours.
With lots of applications posting, the stream of potentially relevant news feed items could be huge.
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The HD video feed starts out as a 1.5 Gbps data stream (about 1, 000 T-1 links).
As Benioff joked about his socks on stage in front of an audience of 14, 000 in San Francisco this morning, a stream of chuckles burst on the screen next to his live feed.
For example, during a session of track and field, instead of viewing only a single feed that moves from event to event, a user can choose to watch a stream dedicated to a specific event, such as the long jump or javelin.
With a huge flow of information from many sources, some sort of activity stream filter is needed so that the amount of information flowing through a news feed does not become overwhelming and unmanageable.
With little warning in 2006, Facebook unveiled "News Feed, " a central page that gathers all the posts from each user's friends in a stream.
Follow my Instagram stream for live photos and drool-worthy gadgets from the show floor, or my Twitter feed for the latest in tech.
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