Visualizing the Radio
If you want to know when Men At Work is playing in Boston RadioSherpa is a fun way to find out. It is a pretty cool looking site that my Etel co-chair, Surj patel, turned me onto. It has a unique way of visualizing what is playing on Boston radio right now. As you can see in the screenshot above there is a bar representing the radio stations. As the slider moves left and right on the bar the album art for the current songs shows up. If you click on an album cover you can buy the song on iTunes, learn more about the artist and sometimes listen to the online stream. RadioSherpa also provides ways to filter the stations by format, genre, and AM/FM. This is such a simple, fun interface that I was amazed i had never seen anything like it before and wanted to share it.
Though they are just in Boston right now, RadioSherp says that they will be expanding to other cities. You can follow their progress on their blog.
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Every invention has got a time. In 2000, when I was working in the Biblitoeca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (cervantesvirtual.com) as vicedirector of marketing, we were creating some new sections and features to the project. I proposed something called Radio Visual (Visual Radio in English) which combined images and sounds. That was the time to create such idea, but I was a torrent of creativity and finally some of my ideas had to be postponed. In 2004 at last, in one of my projects, I could create quite rudimentary, Radio Visual as a way to show interviews of artists and images associated with sounds of the town I live in. Now even Nokia has got a similar idea. The conclusion I take is that, if you don't get a train on time... it leaves!
yours,
Juan Navidad
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