Hi there. I'm back. I don't think I recorded anything last week. Sorry about that if you were looking forward to something. I did say this was gonna be pretty irregular.

So, you know, that's on you. But I have, over the weekend, downloaded a new app called AirChat. If you don't know what it is, it's basically, like Twitter kind of thing. But instead of writing messages, you speak them. And it's doing it's using all of the new kind of machine learning stuff to do, cash.

What's the word for it? Where it's turning my speech into written text. I can't think of the word. Who knows why? But it's doing that, and it's doing it very very quickly and surprisingly accurately.

I mean, maybe I shouldn't be that surprised, but it's very accurate, which is great. And it's really cool way I'm finding just to, like, hear other people's voices for a start in in like a social media setting, which is good. And also to kind of react to the conversations that are happening, you know, in this sort of asynchronous way. And I'm like, why have we done this before? And obviously, I've we did we did do this before.

We've kind of tried. There was Twitter spaces is a sort of a go at this. There was another app a couple of years ago that got really popular and then fizzled out really quickly, which was all about sort of creating these spaces. And it they all seem to have missed the trick, which is that you not just talking into the void, like I'm doing now, and hoping that somebody's listening. But you're actually engaging in a conversation.

But you're not engaging in a live conversation, because the live conversation can be quite daunting for a lot of people. 1,000 people listening necessarily, and then be sort of forced into, like, my mic is hot, and I'm saying stuff off the top of my head. You you can stop and think about it. You can write it down first, like, obviously, on a piece of paper and whatever, or whatever you prefer. Save the trees.

But you you can think about what you're gonna say and then say it. You can record and bin it. You know, you don't have to just, like, throw it out there. The the point is that I think it's encouraging the use of our voice, which is something I've talked about before. And I just feels really kind of cool, and I'm enjoying it.

Yeah. I was just like, maybe, you know, if you wanna jump on the bandwagon of a new social network, just want to check out, because there's one of the other things that this ties into and why I think this is interesting to talk about is I'm seeing what I've Well, yeah. What I feel is happening at the moment is a lot of social networks are becoming inundated. I'm sure, like me, when you if you've ever looked at Facebook over the last few I I don't even know how long it's been happening. But recently, you will have seen how absolutely rubbish it is.

It's like full of trash. And that I don't think that's gonna get any better anytime soon. In fact, I think the death of Facebook has already happened honestly. But, basically, they have this like curve, you know. So all of these platforms have this curve.

And what seems to happen is that in the very early days, there's, like, nobody on there. Right? And there's, like, this small movement of people who are like, yeah, there's this new thing. Try it out. Cool.

And then nobody really joins for a bit, and it's it's dead, and it can't really get started. And it just needs like some groundswell that take it takes off. And then when it starts to do that, it gets really popular really quickly. And tons of people join it. And some some of the people who are there the earliest, like the, very early adopters, they can get very popular on there.

I'm not saying popularity is the most important thing, but if you're trying to become, you know, well known in the space for being a thought leader. I hate that. Sorry. But if you're trying to do that, if that's important to you for whatever reasons, but, like, let's say business reasons, then you have to kind of be aware of these new networks and their appearance, and, like, how to do well on them. You know, we saw probably most recently as a a big broad attempt at this with TikTok.

It's like all the brands jumping on TikTok because Tik Tok is the thing that's grown. It's like skyrocket. But, I'm not saying that that's going to happen with this platform. Maybe it will. But it probably won't.

I think people are generally a little bit more afraid of the voice thing, and there's a lot of other hurdles to get over as well. But the point is, you've gotta kind of be aware of these things. Be aware of the curve that they're on, and where they're where they're at on that curve. And if you're trying to take advantage of that, just, like, kind of dive in I'm not saying that that's what I'm doing. But I just it feels kind of relevant to maybe some of you who may have may listen to this.

So, yeah. AirChat. I'm on there. Guess what? You can find me on the usual username, Simon Hamp.

It would be cool to connect and hear your voice. And then instead of it just being me talking to you, and you're listening going, nah, he's full of crap. You can reply to me, and I can hear you say, you're full of crap. Go on. Do it.

I dare you. Bye.