This idea combines the twitter concept (what is was created to be-the answer to what are you doing right now-and not ”link spam” for the masses) and our ability to selectively listen and filter things we don’t care about.
The idea is voice sms that gets broadcast to interested people periodically by a person to keep them updated.
While text sms is mainly used as peer-to-peer tool or as a marketing broadcasting tool it requires a person to stop what they are doing and handle their phone to read the message. They could save time if it was simply whispered into their ear.
Imagine seeing a sale and announcing it in the ears of your friends or to announce that you just got some good news.
There are several ways to implement this using current cell phone technologies and services. From the more expensive using a protocol of sending and playing MMS messages to building a dedicated client software using a wireless network connection if one is found and supported by the phone.
It is like a private radio station composed of announcements from friends and family in real-time.
When you are in the car you can play it on your speaker phone and respond to friends announcements as they happen which will create something like a conference call where people can opt in and out and respond as they want or just listen.
Although there are many internet platforms such as twitter, facebook etc that let you stay updated with friends, most of us cannot dedicate time to just sit and stare at facebook the whole day and although we can easily post tweets through our cell phone we cannot easily filter the junk from the stuff we care about and we do have to stop everything and mess with it.
With radio like interface we can stay connected many hours a day and instead of listening to mass media create a custom stream we care about of short announcement from people we care about (not like podcasting where the content is longer and needs your attention and dedicated time, this is supposed to be listened to while doing other things).
Plus there is a real advantage from hearing our loved ones in their own voice. There is so much information that gets lost in text that is available when we hear someone talk like emotional state and subtexts.
