It’s possible someone’s already come up with this idea, so apologies to them if that’s the case!
It strikes me, as someone working in the commercial radio sector, that the ability to create public Google Plus hangouts (or huddles) allows for the possibility of the provision of interactive online radio services.
Granted, at the moment, it requires your audience to stay quiet as potentially thousands of people all with their webcams and microphones on kind of drowns out the ‘service’ being provided – but if Google were to add a feature whereby the original “huddle starter” were in moderator control of the audio within the huddle, it could work. There will surely also be encoder quality issues, technical limits on the number of people in a huddle and where you even start with copyright & licencing of performed works in this environment, I don’t know.
But it’s a thought – and doesn’t actually require much development work from Google to make it a reality.
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