Jim Zimmerman - ASP.NET, MVC, Ajax and ORM

Most people don't know that "Terrestrial Radio" will die sooner than later, not because of satelite radio, but because of podcasting, car pcs, and smart phones.

I have a treo 700w and have just fallen in love with the capabilities of this phone. I know have said enough about that in an earlier post, but it really has opened my eyes to possiblities that are here today and not have to wait until tomorrow. For instance, today I was driving home from work and was caught in traffic wishing that I had already downloaded the latest DotNetRocks.com podcast. Since the new treo 700w sports a fast EVDO connection from Verizon, about 700k a sec, I figured I would go to the DotNetRocks.com and click on the streaming wma file from Pocket IE on my phone. 10 seconds later, the file had already buffered and was playing the podcast live streaming from the internet without any hickups into my car stereo tape player adapter. I was amazed. Then I started to think that there has to be 1000's of podcasts that I could also stream live to my car along with 1000's of online radio stations.

It is only a matter of time before a slick interface is put on podcasts that can stream live or download to your car as you are driving for playback later. The possiblities are really endless. Everyone will be able to pick their own personalized content based on their interests. I have not even turned on the radio in more that 2 months because of podcasts that I am more interested in and music that I have already downloaded.

My next project is to have a car pc and hook it into verizons fast network so that I can do just about anything from the road. Now the trick is to find more reasons to drive!