DriveActivates Chinswing for the Melbourne Web 3.0 Party
Good to see another startup in Melbourne, we'll need to organise a Web 3.0 party very soon. And I'm glad one of my old uni's - Monash (current) award winning undergrads The Drive Activated Blog is covering this (and lots of other 2.0 news) better/earlier than many about to go on holiday MSM pros who I also respect in their own special waaays :)
"Joining the guys at gnoos, an aussie-centric blog search engine, is Chinswing, which are general discussion forums with a twist - you speak your thoughts instead of typing them. Finally we can get the human-ness back into the web (yes I know, youtube has had video comments for a while now, but some people just aren't made for the camera). Instead of trying to construe someone's intention from emoticons, we can detect it from their voice, which is far more interesting. Besides, listening to someone just isn't the same as reading text - that's one reason why podcasts took off remember?"
Chinswing (wonder what the name means ?? no freudian jokes please, i'm interested) kinda reminds me of some of the odeo features, but it's also a bit like the comments on myspace with the twist being it's audio. Kinda audio-aggregated-telepathy ! Techmeme meets myspace comments meets odeo's record feature - check out Chinswing.com. I like their UI anyway, alot. (maybe minus green strip at top ? ironic because we had a similar decision on whether to have a strip on top and when in doubt copy flickr ie no strip when white background)
Schweet local design and something new, excellent ! And I think they travelled a continent to be here (dont believe the rumours about well i cant mention it here), so intrigue is always a good pre-condition to a party.. (for some of us January is a work month other than the Melbourne Ashes test, which isnt really January)
"Joining the guys at gnoos, an aussie-centric blog search engine, is Chinswing, which are general discussion forums with a twist - you speak your thoughts instead of typing them. Finally we can get the human-ness back into the web (yes I know, youtube has had video comments for a while now, but some people just aren't made for the camera). Instead of trying to construe someone's intention from emoticons, we can detect it from their voice, which is far more interesting. Besides, listening to someone just isn't the same as reading text - that's one reason why podcasts took off remember?"
Chinswing (wonder what the name means ?? no freudian jokes please, i'm interested) kinda reminds me of some of the odeo features, but it's also a bit like the comments on myspace with the twist being it's audio. Kinda audio-aggregated-telepathy ! Techmeme meets myspace comments meets odeo's record feature - check out Chinswing.com. I like their UI anyway, alot. (maybe minus green strip at top ? ironic because we had a similar decision on whether to have a strip on top and when in doubt copy flickr ie no strip when white background)
Schweet local design and something new, excellent ! And I think they travelled a continent to be here (dont believe the rumours about well i cant mention it here), so intrigue is always a good pre-condition to a party.. (for some of us January is a work month other than the Melbourne Ashes test, which isnt really January)
posted by redbarren at 4:43 PM
2 Comments:
Hi. I'm the Creator of Chinswing.
Glad you like the site. There are many improvements on the way, the nearest being an in-browser (Java-based) recorder instead of the current downloaded/installed one. That will make a lot of people happy (me included!).
The Melbourne Web 3.0 party sounds like fun. Count me in ;-)
By the way, the name is a variation on the word "chinwag". As you're living in Oz, it should all now make perfect sense...
Cheers,
Dean.
Thanks Ben for the link and nice words :-)
Reminds me to add my feed to gnoos too, seeing as some quick ego-searches weren't coming up with anything :-(
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