Earlier this month, SoundCloud founder Alex Ljung gave a presentation at LeWeb where he explained why sound would surpass video. He's got a horse in this race: SoundCloud lets users record and upload audio snippets for sharing.
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson, whose Union Square Ventures is an investor in Soundcloud, posted the video on his blog this weekend. Here's a summary:
- Simplicity. Twitter is popular because it gives users a way to express themselves in only 140 keystrokes. But now everybody with a smartphone has a microphone in their pocket, and it takes only one click to record something. A lot of smartphones are getting video recording as well, but it's a lot less intrusive to record a conversation or sound snippet than it is to point a video camera in somebody's face.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Four Reasons Why Sound Will Be Bigger Than Video Online
