Thursday, October 29, 2009
Is There a Flickr for Audio?
I have a new phone. It runs that new Google juice called Android, and for the most part I think it's pretty neat. It is, among other things, the first time I have owned a computer that I talk to, instead of just through:
I press that little microphone on the right, I say "DC like a local" and it gives me a link to Tim's blog. More often than not, this is quite a bit faster than typing a search query, and I'm starting to take a shine to it. The whole experience isn't optimized for speech in the same way it is on Star Trek, but I can see that coming eventually.
This, among other things, got me thinking about the manifold uses for small snippets of audio. I decided I'd like to use a website that allows me to easily (preferably via an Android app) record, upload, tag, share, string-together, rate, geotag, edit, arrange, taxonomize, ontologize, and generally use small snippets of audio.
The way Flickr lets me do with pictures.
I started asking people who are smarter than me where I could find such a service, and while there were plenty of you-might-be-able-to-make-Google-Wave-do-that kind of answers, this conversation didn't result in you're any oh-you-must-mean-xxxxx type of answers.
So, Internet, I put it to you: what is Flickr for audio?
Answering "iTunes" results in lost karma, and anyone teasing me about still not having a Google Wave account will be summarily invited to suck on a lemon. Possibly in all caps. With exclamation points.
I press that little microphone on the right, I say "DC like a local" and it gives me a link to Tim's blog. More often than not, this is quite a bit faster than typing a search query, and I'm starting to take a shine to it. The whole experience isn't optimized for speech in the same way it is on Star Trek, but I can see that coming eventually.
This, among other things, got me thinking about the manifold uses for small snippets of audio. I decided I'd like to use a website that allows me to easily (preferably via an Android app) record, upload, tag, share, string-together, rate, geotag, edit, arrange, taxonomize, ontologize, and generally use small snippets of audio.
The way Flickr lets me do with pictures.
I started asking people who are smarter than me where I could find such a service, and while there were plenty of you-might-be-able-to-make-Google-Wave-do-that kind of answers, this conversation didn't result in you're any oh-you-must-mean-xxxxx type of answers.
So, Internet, I put it to you: what is Flickr for audio?
Answering "iTunes" results in lost karma, and anyone teasing me about still not having a Google Wave account will be summarily invited to suck on a lemon. Possibly in all caps. With exclamation points.
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If you were to consider audio snippets to be a degenerate form of video snippets, then maybe Flickr would be the Flickr for this purpose? or Youtube? (Though I recall that Flickr's video snippets had to be shorter than 30s.)
You make a good point. Unfortunately neither will even accept my audio in an audio format (eg without any accompanying pictures). At least that much I get from itunes...
Do you know about Huffduffer? It's for bookmarking, not storage, but still seems like something you might want to know about.
Jodi, looks interesting, and I didn't know about it. Definitely the closest I've seen so far, though still strange not to have found a storage/editing component, a la Flickr. 'Course, Huffduffer looks like it's got the rest (tagging, sharing, etc.). Thanks!
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