As the column streamed through downtown Budapest past shocked, bemused and horrified Hungarians, one shopper wept silently, mascara streaming down her face, as children struggled by.
Instead of a single column stream of status updates, shares and photo uploads, the new Timeline provides a deeper look into your past.
While blogging, by 2006, had popularized reverse-chronological flows of content, and hardcore users had tapped the power of RSS, the makeup of the online lives of the masses had not yet been molded into a series of single-column streams — Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Tumblr, and Vine didn't exist then.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet While blogging, by 2006, had popularized reverse-chronological flows of content, and hardcore users had tapped the power of RSS, the makeup of the online lives of the masses had not yet been molded into a series of single-column streams — Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare, Tumblr, and Vine didn't exist then.
But just on the outskirts of town, thousands of people were hitting the road in endless columns, streaming back to the villages where fighting had raged just a few days ago.
The new Google Plus design, launching today at Google I / O, illustrates that principle quite strongly, given that its core interface is built entirely around cards, refreshingly breaking with the single-column stream design that has conquered every other social network: posts are presented as cards in a vast, unending grid, framed by ample space on either side.
A two-column stream of posts and tweets is displayed on the homepage, and you can click through to open up the corresponding website to read the content.
The columns stream virtual imagery on all four sides of its displays raining down light or falling leaves, cascading bubbles floating towards the ceiling, or images of a couple dancing and the effect of seeing the same image repeated on all those surfaces, as well as reflected on the floor, creates a disorienting, hall of mirrors kind of feeling.
Soon two massive columns were streaming down the East and West Sides.
And by August 25th and 26th Russian armoured columns were streaming across the border near Amvrosiyivka, on the road to Donetsk, and at Novoaszovsk, on the coast.From that point on, the evidence for Russian troops on the ground was clear from the results of the fighting.
