Bill Lovett

Leaving Voice Notes on Web Pages

Posted on July 28th, 2006

A new voicemail-like feature of Backpack was recently described on "Voicenotes for Backpack." Backpack users can attach short audio clips to their pages by signing up with a third party service and effectively telephone a URL.

That's pretty neat.

I can easily see the same idea being applied to other discussion-oriented web experiences like blog comments, bringing them close in line with a talk radio experience than the time staggered chat experience that comes from all text all the time. I suppose this is another angle on audio blogging.

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