Telepocalypse

Socialist services

More thoughts on social media. Tonight's unoriginal idea: radio for two. Grab a service like epitonic, which lets you create a personalised radio station based on your genre choices. Simultaneously stream to two people, either of whom can control the "skip" button.

Now you and your loved one can have a virtual snuggle knowing nobody else is listening to the same set as you, and your other half is hearing and enjoying just the same music you are -- even if they're the other side of the globe.

Next week, you can look forward to articles on why IPTV is such an innovative idea, and how IMS is going to unleash a torrent of telco service innovation upon us. Err. Not. Funny, isn't it, how all those 3G TV and music services are creating facsimiles of old broadcast and unicast media when the users have shown a clear preference for doing things in groups of two or more...