In a study originally designed by Nielsen group, intended to find out what was going on, elementally, with community access cable channels, primates were divided into two groups, one of which was allowed to lead a normal life, while the other was exposed to a constant, 24-hour stream of community access programming.
To illustrate this two step process, Appendices A and B present an example of a simple stream of light values, accessed over HTTP streaming and Web hooks.
Though the real question is, of course, whether people will actually follow suit, and if the ability to buy direct from social streams — that supposed ease of access — will increase the likelihood that we'll buy the product, whatever it is.
"To do a STREON experiment, you need a significant reach of stream, and access to it for 30 to 40 years," Olds explains.
This delivers a tight format, a stream of ideas and priority access to whichever star is in Sydney.
In the age of streaming, with access to millions of songs, how do you figure out what to listen to?
Twitter hasn't specified exactly what type of access to its stream YC startups will get (there are a number of levels with various call rate limits).
A steep rocky outcropping followed much of the stream, making access tricky at best.
Those more optimistic about the influence of streaming access believe services like Spotify make it easier for listeners to discover artists and fall in love with them.
This way each stream can access all the degrees of freedom of the channel.
