After attending the first Redial class, which I might add promises to be very interesting and exciting, I decided to take a closer look at Snapvine.com. I had recently discovered the website (see an earlier post) on myspace because of their new feature which allows you to embed a voice recorder flash module on any web page that allows your 'friends', or really anyone, to leave you voice messages that anyone else can listen to. While the concept was interesting, I found the execution to be somewhat silly, given that there was no filtering system and no real context or reason why the voice messages should be left and played for a public audience (but the module is specifically made for myspace, which explains a lot). However, upon examining the site closer, I found that there were alot of 'traditional phone' related features. For instance, you can use the site for people to leave you private voicemails for free, you can schedule free wakeup calls, you can have pre-recorded messages sent out to people you know (think break-up messages and the like, this has the potential for incredible abuse) and, the most interesting feature, you can create and join voice forums to talk about anything you want either publically or with a private group of friends and family for free. You can also sign-up to hear podcasts from your phone. Not quite sure why one would want to do that, I suppose if you dont have an ipod it may be useful. But you have to wonder, if you dont have an ipod, how would you know about podcasts. Still its kind of interesting.