Comments on: Creating the Social Media Broadcast (Sonecast)

By: tin

tin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:42:20 +0000

that’s great…i guess, that will be a useful tool for media

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:52:43 +0000

The social media space is clearly begging for consolidation.

I have at least 10 or 12 profiles and cannot possibly update them all regularly. I regularly pull material from media sites such as Splashcast and Flickr. How do we focus?

There needs to be a single portal for pulling all this together. We need to differentiate between taxonomic fundamentals so that overlap is minimized and productivity is maximized.

Will Sonecast be the one to do this? Maybe, maybe not. But it is a vision whose time has come, and it’s exciting to be at the beginning.

By: Coturnix

Coturnix — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:11:42 +0000

Tola also built a very useful Sonecast for the Science Blogging Conference:
http://scienceb...ng.com/commons/
Thank you for highlighting his work here.

By: Laura "Pistachio" Fitton

Laura "Pistachio" Fitton — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:06:12 +0000

We’re very curious to explore how Sonecast could be a useful tool in the mediacasting model/experiment we are conducting this weekend at Startup Weekend. http://www.mediacasters.tv is not a Startup Weekend project, but it is very much evolving as the weekend goes on.

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By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:32:55 +0000

Good points on SplashCast, seeing as how they just raised $4 million. I added them to the post.

Interesting that SplashCast looks to be widget-only and Sonecast is destination-page only. You need both.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:27:27 +0000

This all sounds great. Let’s hope its a little easier to use than splashcast.

Andy
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By: 1000app

1000app — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:04:51 +0000

nice demo site. this is better then youtube.

By: Jason Lekberg

Jason Lekberg — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:47:50 +0000

That “fully featured widget” is the ReverbNation Tunewidget. 100% bad ass

By: mmt

mmt — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:05:13 +0000

Nice to see a credit card funded company on here. Good luck to them. The idea sounds intriguing.

By: Social Marketing Journal

Social Marketing Journal — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:36:44 +0000

Agreeing with Kayakman, it’d be interesting to see how this ultimately differes from the other broadcast apps. Seems pretty good but will it fair well in this competitive market?

By: Kayakman

Kayakman — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:51:58 +0000

This sounds a little like SplashCast. It would be interesting have a post comparing these types of “broadcast” applications.

By: Wayne Sutton

Wayne Sutton — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:19:19 +0000

Congrats to Tola for the interview and thanks to TechCrunch for showing NC some startup love. There are quite a few startups in the area that receives little or no PR, but we’re working on that. I believe Sonecast will work for aggregated social media content to provide a central location for broadcasting media and lifestreams.

Yes it’s like a web desktop but remember it’s in alpha stage at the moment. I think with a little VC help and the right marketing Sonecast will be a product that social media marketers will want to use to find and reach others broadcasting.

You can see a video interview with Soncecast CEO Tola here on Local Conversations: http://blogs.wn...nd-sonecasting/

Wayne

By: John

John — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:46:08 +0000

Don’t reinvent the browser. The whole web desktop thing will never work.

By: Zaid

Zaid — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:43:57 +0000

Congrat to Tola for persevering with this! And YAY for another Chapel Hill start-up:)

By: YouStreams

YouStreams — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:12:50 +0000

Be your own cast.. certainly comes of age…