We thought we'd have some fun with Dave Winer's TwitterGram idea. You can upload MP3's to TwitterGram and the service will send a Tweet on Twitter with a link to it so that people can listen to it. Robert Scoble did some reviews using it and we realised that it can work perfectly with LouderVoice via LouderTweets/LouderMinis.
If you want to do an audio review it really is trivial.
- Sign Up on Twitter
- Add the Twitter user "review" as a friend
- Add the twitter user "twittergram" as a friend
- Record your review as an MP3. I use Audacity on Windows. Please suggest better/easier tools in the comments! We've also had good success with Evoca, an online recorder, so you don't even need to install anything.
- Go to TwitterGram to upload your MP3
- The Title of the TwitterGram must be in this format:
- @review 5 Heroes TV Series. Audio:
- So that's: @review Rating1-to-5 ReviewItem Period+Space Audio:
- Upload!
You'll now have a new Tweet on twitter with a link to your MP3.
Within thirty minutes, that review can be found, rated, bookmarked and grouped on LouderVoice.
Let us know how you get on.
As with all the recent Louder* features, this is experimental. We'll soon be adding the ability to properly associate your Twitter (and other) usernames with your LouderVoice username. For the moment you don't have to be a registered LouderVoice user to try these features out.
http://www.bytesurgery.com/blog/commentcasting/ sounds just like what you needed!
Do you think anyone will run with CommentCasting? It is such a good idea.
Well - my implementation works. It's just down to time. Evoca et al are very similar.
It's not live tho is it? I sooooo understand the time thing!
Evoca nice apart from the fact that I can't get at my own MP3s
CORRECTION: Evoca does let you download your MP3s. I don't know how I missed that.
Nope - its on an unplugged off box under my desk in Dublin
This kind of audio review is very interesting, and useful.
We have to appeal to Robin's good graces and run an implementation of CommentCasting at Tipperary Institute. We could really give it decent support if we wove it into this kind of community effort.
I could be talked into handing the code over
or rewrite it.... It's not that complicated.