Every thing you hear,
put in its time
and place.
Hear a name – see the person, the place, the moment. People, places and ideas appear exactly as they're mentioned; linked to their context, placed on a globe, set in time. Follow the story without stopping to look everything up. It works on any podcast; it shines on history, science and ideas.
one email at launch · nothing else
A player sees sound. Gloss hears Justinian named at 2:46, knows who he was and when he reigned; every name, its dates and its place on the globe, caught as it is spoken.
Gloss playing “The Empire That Never Existed” from Everything Everywhere Daily (Gary Arndt) – watch with sound: Justinian surfaces as he’s named, the year marker finds 555, and the regions light up as they're spoken. Halfway through, the view settles into ambient mode – that's what Gloss does when you just listen; any touch brings the full story back. Nothing is scripted to the demo; this is the engine's own output.
Being read right now.
A machine is listening to an episode this minute. Every point below appeared when it was found – amber is seconds old, and settles into its colour.
Built from 505 shows — 13 120 episodes, 10 104 hours of listening — and every new episode adds to it.
Tell me when it opens
You listen inside Gloss – browse the shelf of glossed shows, or add any podcast and an episode is glossed on demand in minutes. A handful of people are testing it now; add yourself to the next round. Leave an email and I'll write once – when the doors open.
One email, at launch. No list, no sharing, no newsletter.
One web, built one episode at a time.
Every episode Gloss reads contributes its people, places and ideas — and the links between them – to a single shared web. This is that web assembling itself, from the first episode to this morning.
what the colours mean
Each point is matched to both its Wikipedia article and its Wikidata entity – Wikipedia is what you read, Wikidata carries the coordinates and dates, which is how the same thing also appears on the globe and the timeline. Line colour says what kind of relationship it is: conflict, kinship, creation, place, over a dim substrate of plain reference. Points flare amber as they arrive, and the ringed, named ones are the busiest – busy because they keep turning up across different shows, which is the entire idea.the growth curve – for the geeks
Growing is easy. Connecting is the point.
A library that only adds names is a list that gets longer. What matters is when connections start outrunning nodes – the same things turning up in new company. That crossover happened in week one.
