After two months of intense work we've made the first public announcement of Odeo. It's the podcasting platform gaba and I have been working on developing along with evhead and noah glass.
We built it with the wonderful Ruby On Rails framework for the core website. The podcatcher client is in python and the audio recording studio app is built flash.
I'm pretty excited about the application and the tools. It takes audio editing, encoding, uploading and downloading and makes it much easier. I'm frustrated by the NY Times article because it only talks about the business parts of it. Odeo's about making money was the spin. Jason at 37 signals got it right when he said Odeo's about doing to podcasting what blogger did to blogging.
I see a bunch of applications for indymedia where we can allow people produce audio programs with out having to install or configure software.
I've been really interested in exploring how to map a folksonomy style organization system to finding and organizing radio programs. We've built the site using tags and tagging as a fundamental information architecture. It works now with finding new podcasts, but we'll see how well it scales when we go from thousands of podcasts to hundreds of thousands.
Posted by rabble at February 24, 2005 09:11 PM | TrackBackCongratulations on the announcement! I'm looking forward to the launch of Odeo. Checked out the site this morning, and already the suspense is killing me. ;)
Also, glad to hear about your success with RoR, I've recently
discovered the framework (and Ruby), and am _loving_ every bit of it!