Patent ID: 8291350

Claim:
A method comprising: generating for display, in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computing device, a browsing view comprising browsing content, wherein the browsing content includes one or more media objects that are displayable in the browsing view; receiving, at a presence-sensitive screen of the computing device, user input comprising one or more gestures to select at least one media object of the one or more media objects; determining, by the computing device, a magnitude of a detected property of the one or more gestures to select the at least one media object; responsive to receiving the user input, selecting a quantity of metadata associated with the at least one selected media object, wherein the metadata comprises information that describes the at least one selected media object, wherein the quantity of the metadata is proportional to the magnitude of the detected property; and generating for display, in an expanded view of the GUI that includes the browsing view, the metadata associated with the at least one selected media object.