Patent ID: 8091026

Claim:
A method for navigating digital objects, comprising: storing at least two stories, each story comprising a plurality of digital objects; displaying the plurality of digital objects in an expand view in a first display area, wherein each of the plurality of digital objects is displayed having at least one digital object without overlapping; in response to a first input, displaying selected at least two digital objects corresponding to the at least two stories in a collapsed view in which a selected digital object from each of the at least two stories overlaps at least a portion of the plurality of digital objects of a corresponding story, wherein content of the selected digital objects in the collapsed view is related to an event and are associated with a narrative describing the event, wherein the narrative includes one or more audio clips associated with the selected digital objects; playing an audio clip associated with a digital object on a top of the selected digital objects in the collapsed view when the selected digital objects as a whole are selected; moving the selected digital objects in the collapsed view as a whole to a second display area different from the first display area; and in response to a second input, redisplaying the selected at least two digital objects in the expand view having at least one digital object from the collapsed view, wherein the plurality of digital objects represents a plurality of digital media objects, each associated with media content that can be played by a media player.