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March 19, 2011 07:31 pm GMT
I'm a huge William Gibson fan, not least for the ideas with which his books overflow. One such in Spook Country was location-based virtual art: VR images that can only be seen at specific real-world places. As is often the case with Gibson, I read that and wondered, "How long?"Well, today we're halfway there. I give you Broadcastr, a new platform that allows anyone to record or upload audio, and "pin" it to physical locations. Broadcastr then indexes that audio for playback via Web or smartphone, and it can be filtered and shared in the usual ways. Think of it as a crowdsourced audioguide to anywhere and everywhere, as if the whole world was a museum: restaurant reviews straight from diners' mouths, mix tapes for memorial sites, citizen journalism, etc. It also provides the infrastructure for a whole new era of collective oral history; if Broadcastr takes off, its big data will be fascinating.
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Listen Closely: Broadcastr Brings You An Audio Guide To The Whole Wide World
I'm a huge William Gibson fan, not least for the ideas with which his books overflow. One such in Spook Country was location-based virtual art: VR images that can only be seen at specific real-world places. As is often the case with Gibson, I read that and wondered, "How long?"Well, today we're halfway there. I give you Broadcastr, a new platform that allows anyone to record or upload audio, and "pin" it to physical locations. Broadcastr then indexes that audio for playback via Web or smartphone, and it can be filtered and shared in the usual ways. Think of it as a crowdsourced audioguide to anywhere and everywhere, as if the whole world was a museum: restaurant reviews straight from diners' mouths, mix tapes for memorial sites, citizen journalism, etc. It also provides the infrastructure for a whole new era of collective oral history; if Broadcastr takes off, its big data will be fascinating.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/rkktSVrMI6E/
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