Ms. Diller and Mr. Scofidio point to the rampant popularity of self-surveillance, evident in the proliferation of reality shows and talk shows in which people reveal their most intimate secrets and even a phenomenon like JenniCam, a Web site that invited visitors to view a live feed of its creator's every movement.
One issue with People discovery on Instagram is that since you only have one feed, snap-happy creators could drown out friends who only share occasionally.
The SplashCast Facebook application allows users to add a player to their profile that includes a customized skin and comes preloaded with RSS feeds of the creator's latest videos and images.
The ability to use streaming hardware and software to broadcast straight to the News Feed could allow creators to add on-screen graphics, titles and overlays to make their streams more fancy and polished.
They need either a target-man to knock balls down to them (Niall Quinn and Kevin Phillips, Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist) or a deep-lying creator to feed balls through for them (Kenny Dalglish and Ian Rush, Dennis Bergkamp and Nicolas Anelka).
And for "Real Time Local News", check out our Roanoke Fwix feed courtesy of Fwix creator Darian Sharazi.
What fans of the show have been experiencing for the first time this year is a sort of "official" spoiler feed courtesy of Mike Fleiss, creator of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette".
It also will carry the RSS feed of any independent content creator — so long as the creator is willing to permit Apple to use her content without payment and to indemnify the world's most valuable company in the event someone files a libel or copyright complaint against something she wrote.
Chris Leben, head comedy writer for SBS's The Feed, is the co-creator of the character, manning her Twitter account, scripting her viral videos and, one assumes, writing at least most of this book.
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