Cinch takes the next step

Amani — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:06:27 +0000

Today I am going to discuss one of my favorite “up and coming” services – Cinch. I was turned onto this service by both Louis Gray and Jesse Stay who spoke about it on Friendfeed and their respective blogs. Cinch is a service that allows you to create and share micropodcasts, images and text all on one platform. My main use of cinch will be for interviews of musicians for my Mirth Nadir show. Not only can you record an interview in person (now available through the actual web site) with my iphone, but it also uploads the interview right away to your page on cinchcast.com and gives people an RSS option to follow your “cinches” which makes it super easy (and fast) to spread the word about any new interview you do. Along with the RSS option, you get a unique link with an .mp3 file that you can then cross post to other websites. I am thinking specifically of posting this link to posterous and in a matter of minutes you interview can be shared on your network. The actual website process is very simple. Just log on to your page, title the cinchcast and then hit record and you are off and running. The phone recording process is not as difficult as it might seem. Simply call the other party(or have the other party call you). Then add another call and call the Cinch phone number, link the two calls together, wait for the recording and tone and it begins recording. When you finish, just hang up, wait less than a minute and your recording is waiting for you on the website or within the application for you to listen to. Very simple process but a valuable tool for your toolbelt. You can also follow other people on cinch and listen to their micro-podcasts and share your with them as well. You can automatically share with twitter and facebook as well. I predict that cinch will be one of my “highest use” applications in 2010. Follow me on cinch and let’s get to recording.

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Cinch takes the next step