May 10 & 11 5pm-9pm
Spring Show 2005
721 Broadway
at Waverly Place
4th Floor
South Elevators
New York, NY 10003
For additional
information email
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or call 212.998.1880
| Sound-Off! | ||
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| Author(s): | John Lu Nurit Bar-shai Spencer Kiser oli stephensen |
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| Instructor: | Van Every, Shawn | |
| Class: | Producing Participatory Media | |
| Keywords: | podcast, community, ipodder, phone, voip, vonage, ovolab phlink, phone message, voice mail | |
| Sound-Off! is an audio community bulletin board and podcast in which registered users can post and share audio clips. Think of it as a \"Flicker\" service for audio files. | ||
| Sound-Off! is an audio blog/podcast community where users can post and share audio files. Instead of traditional electronic bulletin boards being purely text, Sound-Off! positions audio files to be the elements of a threaded discussion. The submission of these audio files is meant to be as easy as possible. Users can submit by calling Sound-Off\'s phone number and leaving a voicemail message, or uploading a ready made mp3 file. | ||
| Background: | Text blogging, podcasting and vlogging are gaining popularity at the moment but they don\'t engage a proper forum for discussion. They are all forms of one-to-many communication. There is no two way discussion. Sound-Off! creates a forum where anybody with a phone can respond to a post or create a discussion through the power of their voice. | |
| Audience: | Anyone with a phone can make a post. Anyone with a computer and internet connection can create a profile and start seeding discussions with their audio posts. | |
| User Scenario: | To start a thread, a registered user will be required to enter some descriptive text (tags) about their submission. Untagged submissions will be stored on the user\'s profile area on the Sound-Off! web site until the user has a chance to edit them. Any user, however, can respond to any post by calling in and leaving a comment by calling the Sound-Off phone number and entering the corresponding thread ID number. | |
| Technical System Description: | Vonage VoIP router with a static phone number
Ovolab Phlink phone management system Perl scripts and mySQL database push the web site. | |
| Project References, Research and Literature: | vonage.com
ovolab.com ipodder.org | |