The Future of Radio: Slacker

Actually I should be saying last.fm, because it is really where all this is coming from. It’s an amazing start-up and the IT team at Ormigo is raving about it. I still do not get to use it because I don’t really like listening to random music at work. In comes Slacker. It’s an amazing start-up with some real talent behind it that kind of makes your last.fm mobile. They are building a portable device, and best of all a car stereo system. That system will use something similar to last.fm. You can say if you like or hate a song, and skip 6 songs per hour and have quasi personal radio through that.

The device will connect to the Slacker network through Satellite and and WiFi whenever a network is available and update the available songs on the internal hard disk. This means you always get fresh songs. Great stuff. I do want that in my car. I’d need two profiles but still :)

The next step then is that I will have a preferred list of some podcast like some special news, some comedy, and more, and that will be played first. Only then I get some random songs. That would and actually will, totally change your radio listening experience, and the cool thing is … you will be able to buy the song with the press of a button. Oh the world is interesting.