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  • Submitted by: branchcut
  • Created: Jul 11, 2006, 4:43 pm
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The Idea

A way to send voice messages to people via the internet, without knowing their phone number or bothering them with a live call. After getting your voice content onto the server via the many input methods (Flash,VoIP,etc), you would be able to set fine-grained access control. You could make it completely open to the public, like a typical podcast, or you could choose to make it 'invite only' and only available to people you have invited to listen to it, such as a friend or a group of relatives. Listeners would never receive large attachments, and would always receive links back to the server which would support various streaming formats (Flash, Shoutcast/Icecast, VoIP) and download formats (Mp3,Ogg) to make it as easy as possible for the listener. The usage possibilities are very wide: from podcasting to sending personal messages to friends, significant others, and family, to recording an audio blurb on your resume, to convincing a VC of your latest and greatest dot bomb idea, to ..

I thought of this idea when I was...

... travelling, and being in a different timezone making it difficult and costly to call, I needed a way to connect with my friends and I wanted something asynchronous and non-interrupting (like email). But I wanted something more personal and entertaining than email.


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Dested
Dested Posted: August 4, 2006, 12:33 am

It sounds like a great idea, but idk how many people would use it, or pay for it for that matter.

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branchcut Posted: August 9, 2006, 11:45 am

RE: Dested. The site could charge the "power users" who exceed a certain amount of storage and/or bandwidth. As far as how many people would use it... I think the heaviest commercial users would be sales people such as real estate agents. As far as residential users, I think the most likely people to use it are people involved in online dating or some other form of social networking, so maybe it would make sense to partner with those services so they can outsource their internet-based voicemail system without having to build their own.

saigon
saigon Posted: May 29, 2007, 1:12 am

..dah...sorry buy am rusty lately!

 

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