TLDR: We spent the past 6 months building a tool to help people create live call-in shows together (a.k.a. “talk-radio”). It was called Fireside. Based on the “go live together” Periscope launch this past week...
Story and thinking below 👇
A tool like Fireside represents the future of talk radio.
My first “talk radio” project was in 2011 when we built and launched blip.me as a short-form async audio publishing tool.
The human voice is the most authentic and natural modality to communicate — voice conversations must become Internet native.
We mocked-up the concept and began to believe in it more. We built a prototype and it worked really well.