Podcasts Launched at Odeo
I signed up a while back with Odeo (Beta). On Thursday June 23 I received my invitation to check out the now working facilities there. Odeo is the place to browse, listen, upload,download, sync to your iPod (or any Mp3 player).
Evan Williams and Noah Glass are the two creators behind Odeo. They’re blogging the development of the company at the Odeo Blog. Though Rabble, one of the technicians on the project is also blogging at Anarchogeek.
Ev co-founded and CEO’ed Pyra Labs, the creators of Blogger, in 1999, before joining up with Google (with Blogger) in 2003. After a connection with Noah his neighbour he collaborated on Audioblogger, a facility making it possible to phone an audio blog on to the net. He left Google in October 2004 and ended up starting a new company, ODEO, again working with Noah Glass, his neighbour in Noe Valley, San Francisco. Ev’s been blogging at www.evhead.com since February 1999.
So what do I think of Odeo? Well it’s early days yet. So far we have the capacity to listen to streamed material online, and download mp3 podcasts with ease. The synchroniser is a great bit of software and works intuitively. We have the capacity to add podcasts to the database by providing URLs for audio content already on the web.
Podcasts of interest
ABC Radio: Triple j’s Hack, Dr Karl, an accoustic session from Ben Lee…
Sermons: Mark Driscoll’s hour long sermons from Mars Hill in Seattle…
Creating Podcasts
In the future we’re promised the facilities for creating our own podcasts:
Odeo Studio - A browser-based tool that makes it easy to record and publish audio. With the Studio, and a cheap microphone (or even the one built into your laptop), you have everything you need.
Phone Posting If you can leave a voicemail, you’ll be able to podcast, with Odeo’s phone-posting service�a quick and easy way to put your voice on the web (and in people’s ears).
Feed Creation and Hosting - If you already have audio, and you just want to get it into podcasting form, Odeo provides the turnkey way to do that. Just upload your MP3s, and you’re done.
