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Robert Paterson has been writing on the future of TV. I have commented a little on it before. Presently I only see the channel model at work which we’ve inherited from TV. Even in the new web TV initiatives. The alternative that I see right now is the podcast model. Customers can subscribe to an RSS/Atom feed. While creating an open method for people to distribute content what about channel flipping? How do I discover new channels?

A couple ideas…

1. Recommendation engine (like Amazon’s)
2. Rating system (flip through top rated feeds)
3. Related feeds

This entry was posted on Friday, January 14th, 2005 at 7:58 am and is filed under Zooidal.