Roadcasting is technology in protype stage that allows anyone of have their own radio station, broadcast through wireless enabled devices. Read more at Wired, technology review and Om Malik’s blog. On the surface roadcasting looks to be more in the…

Roadcasting: A Potential Mesh Network Killer App .

Roadcasting is collaborative, mobile radio. The concept was created by a team of five students at Carnegie Mellon University. It is a system, currently in prototype state, that allows anyone to have their own radio station, broadcasted among wirelessly…

What annoyed me was the lack of detail about the networking and transmission. 30 miles using *what* technology?

This stuff would be so much easier with always-on, ubiquitous, high speed internet access. If GPRS/3G was flat rate and fast, we’d be doing this now. Meanwhile trying to keep a WiFi network going between cars is hard. And virtually impossible without some coordination. And iTrip broadcasting is do-able it’s the same old broadcast model, even if it is democratised.

So let’s not get too excited about RoadCasting. It’s both too hard with current technology and a re-hash of already existing work elsewhere on other platforms.

Yes, its the amazing power of the network, content creation at the individual level, blah blah.. but isnt this stretching it a bit too far. Hasnt the radio been ‘roadcasting’ since eternity?

“This profile is not a static snapshot of musical tastes, but rather an ever-changing profile that enables the system to make accurate guesses about the music that a listener enjoys hearing.”

” Because the system understands what each Listener likes and is looking for, Roadcasting stations can be organized according to a listener’s preference. Stations are organized by the aggregate categories that they fall into. These categories will appear in order of preference, and the stations in each category will appear in order of preference.”

“Broadcasters and Listeners move between levels of involvement based on the amount of attention they can give to the service. This allows broadcasters and listeners to tailor their interactions depending on their driving situation. For instance, a driver who is on city streets and is talking on a cell phone probably will interact with Roadcasting less frequently than a commuter stuck in heavy traffic. The seamless shifts between modes will ensure that safety is always the number one priority.”

Justo cuando iTunes se prepara para entrar al mundo de Podcasting, aparece un nuevo fenómeno que no compite de ninguna manera con el Podcasting (bajar “programas” de radio a tu iPod para escuchar cuando y donde quieras), pero que esperamos…

Uh, that’s some kind of funny right there. I’ve had a bumper sticker on my car with “Tune to 89.5″ on it (the frequency I always keep my iTrip at) for like 2 years now. I’m certainly not claiming to have invented “Roadcasting”, maybe you are saying you came up wtih the term in a thesis paper, but certainly you can’t claim to have invented something so simple as that. I’m sure someone had an iTrip and an iPod and thought the same as myself (and yourself) long before I did. No, you guys are talking about something a bit more complicated than an iPod and iTrip(or whatever), but it’s essentially the same idea.

When I was in NYC last week, a friend praised the serendipitous sociality of Manhattan. It is LA’s turn. Roadcasting allows anyone to create their own radio station, broadcasted among cars in an ad-hoc network. Om Malik interviews the…