[zenosmosis]

I think that it has a lot of potential, but too much "social" anything seems more like an effort to collect a bunch of user data rather than deliver a product that people actually want.

Once someone makes the effort to build an actual tool (think, a "hammer that doesn't require the builder to log in, in order to build a house") that is actually useful w/o massive data gathering, that's where the gold lies.

Unfortunately, it seems not many people are in that mindset when they build a product.

Which is why every social network is fueled by ads.

The least common denominator path of least innovation resistance.

Will such a path lead the creator to massive income? Probably not, unless the creator is smart enough to build on top of it. (i.e. WebKit is open source, and Apple uses it to monetize certain types of apps)

So, no, I don't think social audio is dead at all.

The practice of massive, non-transparent data collection is what's dying.