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20/11/05 ByteCasting’ To Coin A Phrase
I’m still itching to find a good implementation of Asterisk for my final year project, I’m putting this to the Irish bloggers now- maybe you can refine this for me. In particular Jim, Bernie & Damien and a past mentor of mine Jonah Peretti from MIT Media Lab might have something to add; I know you’re all full of ideas! If you’ve followed the below posts you know the direction I’m trying to go with this…
My most interesting idea at present is:
‘ByteCasting’ to be termed as recording of lots of short sound bites/bytes :-) to cover an event in time all spliced automatically into one file download.
Here’s the implementation: user picks up mobile phone, hits speed dial button -> instantly connected to Asterisk PBX server. The server will record the ByteCast, which can be of any length: It may for example be spur of the moment commentary on an event. Either hanging up or pressing # will end the recording, although with the second option you will be asked to tag the file by typing in on the alpha-numeric keypad of your phone. These files are immediately published online in an RSS feed, and rendered on a blog.
The application would allow submissions from multiple ByteCasters, aside from allowing a user following an individuals RSS feed, you could also follow a tag’s RSS feed which would give live coverage of an event as it happens from civilian commentators.
Imagine a tech conference, rugby match, product launch, world event,or disaster scene - You sign up to the tag, and once launched a client desktop application plays every files as it appears online. Live from multiple voices, viewpoints and people watching it with their own eyes.
It sure sounds an interesting one for me to work on, but I’ve hit a brick wall at a supervisor meeting: It must be an enterprise implementation. Can anyone swing this concept around to be used within a private corporation?
UPDATE (5 mins later): Already had some great feedback from Damien. Pointing out the BBC project to tag music via text message, and the idea of speed-tagging with present keys. With a * keystroke for ‘last-tag’ repeat.
Tags: DCU, Final Year Project, General, Ideas
8 Comments
22/11/05 Damien Mulley’s Blog » Blog Archive » Bytecasting - Cooking up compilations
[...] Robin comes up with the idea of bytecasting. And I like: [...]
What do you mean exactly by ‘enterprise implementation’?
You want to restrict its users to the employees of the company who buys it? Or you just want a company that buys it to get some value out of it?
Thanks for dropping by Rowan! (Did you see the Alpha Inspiration Page?)
I think a bit of both are my constraints- it’s more so it’s to be used in a traditional sense of an internal PBX rather than a running third party content with a business model of a service provider.
These would be examples of my understanding:
-Jane from her desks dials an internal number, gets the service somehow.
-Joe from his mobile, rings the office PBX to perform an operation.
-Customer X phones the company, PBX performs a service.
Hmmm!
Well, how about the audience at a conference, match or other event. They count as customers of whoever is hosting the event, right? Part of the event package could be the ability to review video, or audio coverage at a later date. And your byte casting would be a way of annotating that coverage while youre actually at teh real event. It’s like placing markers in the coverage stream for later. Plus you get to record a little snippet of your thoughs at the time.
The advantage of podcasting like this instead of into your mp3 player is that you get an automatic time reference that can be lined up with later coverage at the right place. This is one way I see of taking advantage of that. Any others?
Thats a thought, Thanks Rowan… very like the BBC project I listed as an update to the post. I wonder… hmmmm.
The timimg is a great aspect actually. Where the actual button press can be combined with real time in a live event.
Cheers…for that!
Darn, it’s been done :-(
22/01/06 ByteSurgery » Comment Casting on Asterisk - E-Media Development [ Robin Blandford ]
[...] I’m still generating ideas for my final year project. While I have the Asterisk server installed, configured now and accepting calls from both handsets and SIP network clients, I have still to define what I’m actually going to do with it. I had the idea of ByteCasting which I found had already been done, so then I settled on an AJAX version of the common web based voicemail client. But while speeding down the M50 last night I had a great idea, I think… [...]
23/01/06 Joel Melendez
Your idea is very good… there’s other interesting idea that will be used by every website in the world if you came out with these php script for Asterisk:
http://www.webdialogs.com/products/webintertalk.asp Press the “Click to talk!” button… tha call back funtion will be use by every website in the world if your developed it!
