Patent ID: 7363591

Claim:
A method for the consolidated display and presentation of digital information for interaction by a participant, comprising: providing content items from a plurality of content sources, the content items including a set of community information that enables the participant to discover the presence of one or more other participants, at least two of said content sources having different media types, the media types including at least two of on-air, video, photos, music, games, and books; capturing said content items based at least in part on an historical preference associated with said participant, said historical preference based on at least one of an historical pattern of content access by said participant and a historical selection of content by said participant; and multi-dimensionally presenting at least one indicia of said content items and at least one piece of meta-data associated with one or more of said content items, said content items organized based upon said historical preference associated with said participant, for use by said participant, wherein said at least one piece of meta-data includes at least one piece of ancillary information associated with said content items.