Novels, plays, and movies are static content offered up solely as creative presentations for consumption by a passive audience.

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The rise of dynamic content, like a new comment entering the feed, necessitated a better solution than pagination built for static content.

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Beyond the relocation resources that we baked into the static content portion of LiveWork Portland, we have closed the loop even farther with a new initiative, 2 Degrees Portland.

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Essentially, the information age is reaching a new level where it requires us to look beyond static or fixed pieces of content such as documents, papers, individual posts, or even video content.

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Their primary defense was to cache as much content as they could as static pages.

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On the Start screen, dynamically updated "live tiles" show users real-time content directly, breaking the mold of static icons that serve as an intermediate step on the way to an application.

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The rest will see the trend and create content factories of promotional branded content that simply prolongs the slow agonizing death of the static, traditional, corporate website.

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"While eBook readers have focused on static black-and white images in a single purpose device, we believe incremental content from magazines, newspapers, textbooks and other formats will lend themselves to a more colorful, immersive and interactive experience, more akin to what users have come to expect from the Internet, " Cross writes.

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