so there is multiple ways that you can view the steem blockchain, that’s probably one of the hardest things to get your head around when you start to use the steem blockchain is where it lives, why you can connect to it from different frontends and different tools — in fact it’s going through different iterations already with appbase and the future is bright for completely custom looking ways to interface with the chain in a fast manner.
one tool i’ve been really digging recently is the esteem surfer which i’m going to give you a walk around today — if your an ‘app’ person that likes to click on an icon and fire up an app and work through that you will find this maybe a more native experience than just operating your blog from a web interface — your looking at a similar styling but the enhancements and productivity tools might make your steem blockchain experience better.
now let me get something out of the way first — i tried esteem on mobile way back around a year or more ago and i really could not get on with it, mainly from a UI/UX perspective — the settings felt clunky to me and disorganised and i hated it, i’m super picky about the interface of an app after being spoilt with things like path, instagram and vine.
an app for me has to be a pleasure to use and get out of my way, i have to be able to get in and out
so it was a big deal for me to come back using anything by esteem, the surfer app sounded cool AND it uses a native electron based wrapper, something that i’m interested in mainly because of the ability to cross build for multiple platforms because it runs inside of the app/window — it’s basically a custom app talking to the steem blockchain, because of that you can do some really great custom things that the current frontend (it’s called condenser) of the steemit website cannot do.
just for some clarity steemit was the main website i used (still use) to access the steem blockchain mainly because it was this company behind it (@ned one of the two initial founders works there) in the first place — you can use busy.org which might be better for a more native web experience if you are brand new to the steem blockchain.
anyway, take a look at the video, i try and step through a bunch of the features that really stand out for me and i think that people will really love, especially if you have been using the platform a number of years and have been waiting for some little additions that make your experience a little more productive in archiving, stats and drafting.
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pinterest epic wins pinboard → brand advocate for nokia, 1000heads, verisign → won vloggie for node666 (san fran 2006) → television for time team history hunters 1999 (burton on trent) → sold me.dm to evan williams in april 2011 → went to phil campbell, alabama to help raise money after tornado ripped up the town (was on sky news, bbc news)→ CNN for sxsw 2013 about austin south by southwest event → video chat with robert scoble from rackspace → music video can you spot me? → won the digital derry contest for 5k euros → crowdfunded digital signage concept called pi street → now living life through digital blockchains.
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