[Left to Right: ur hipster Noah Glass, prankster Biz Stone, personal publishing provocateur Evan Williams]
Odeo was an early entrant in the podcasting market that has grown and changed so much in the past year. We talked with Biz Stone and Evan Williams about Odeo’s focus, the new features they are rolling out and where podcasting might be going.
Check out Odeo and Odeo Studio, and follow the story on their blog.
Listen to the podcast:
Â
A bit of ruckus over this quasi trolling post harshing on the ‘efficiency’ of podcasting. It’s not super ‘efficient’ for me to spend time talking to just one person about things that don’t require action items, you know, like my wife or my kids, or my coworkers who just might want to share something going on. Or my customers who might have some roundabout observation. You get my drift. I said some time ago that podcasting was going to bring it hard for those who wanted more personalized connections. My human-ness with voice, faces, nonverbal.
As for efficiency, I’d challenge anyone to pack more in than does the daily video bomblet courtesy of Ze Frank. Sportsracers, knowledge today is rapido y fabuloso.
Bonus:Â Eric tells us a story that ends with snarky zombies.
Peter Davis has a great point when he notes that he can review 50 blogs in the same time he can listen to the average podcast. He has a great point and one worth reading in full here. But for me Alex has a more topical explaination of how podcasts can offer businesses a method for timeshifting important audio content.
For most companies conference calls are a fact of life. Many of us sit in our office on several conference calls per week at peek work hours. We could be connecting with partners and associates, but instead we are forced to listen to boring calls that often have nothing to do with us. Podcasting offers a great way for businesses to allow their workers to timeshift conference call information. Imagine being able to listen to a weekly conference call on the way home from work or being able to fast forward through parts not on topic to your function? What if you could then use your cell phone to insert your own thoughts into a feed? Alex details these features in his post titled, “Scoble is right, podcasting is inefficient!”
Podcasting is a great tool that can be used to save time or to waste time - its all in the application!
(L to R: Josh Hallett, Mike Manuel, Dave Coustan)
I got some of the PR 2.0 gang back together while we were at Syndicate NYC last week. David Parmet, Mike Manuel, Josh Hallett and I were joined by Joel Richman of PAN Communications. We talked about the lack of PR folks at the Syndicate show, about the Chevy ‘roll your own ad’ campaign, Amanda Congdon, and much, much more. We can’t help ourselves. We like to chat.
Listen to the podcast:
Technorati Tags: brian oberkirch, david parmet, hyku, joel+richman, josh hallett, mike+manuel, PAN+communications, pr2.0, syndicate, syndicate06, syndicatenyc, voce+communications, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
Josh Hallett is posting podcasts from this morning’s Syndicate sessions. (He has the Jarvis & Edelman remarks up now, and is recording the podcasting panel now).
Follow the discussion here (at Technorati) or here (at Sphere).
Shame we didn't get to meet Amber MacArthur at SXSW, as she's evidently a fan of Big in Japan. She talks about the Big in Japan toolkit on this episode of CommandN.
Then Alex and I did an Inside the Net interview (mp3) with Amber & Leo, all about Big in Japan and the building block ecosystem of newer Web apps.
Technorati Tags: alex+muse, amber macarthur, biginjapan, brian oberkirch, commandn, inside+the+net, leo+laporte
Seems like some folks are getting bent out of shape about YouTube policies. (We heart YouTube as a viewer, but haven't really published much there.) Here's what going on with PodServe, one of the Big in Japan tools.
The podcall feature is getting play in the media and from potential clients. Frank Barnako @ Marketwatch said this:
Your podcast is calling
PodServe.com, a quick way to create standard, social or public podcasts is working on technology that you might call "going retail, door-to-door." Brian Oberkirch and Alexander Muse, founders of Podserve, said their free hosting service for podcasts is going to offer production tools, too.
One of them will let you type your phone number on a Web page and Podserve will call and allow you to record. Podserve will then create and upload the file to the Web.
"I am so frustrated with these stupid microphones and Skype and Audacity and Gizmo … if I could just pick up a phone and make a podcast, that's what I want to do," Muse said.
Oberkirch and Muse talked about Podserve, and their other free software applications, on a recent "Inside the Net" podcast. Listen to it.
Plus we're talking with two large companies about doing OEM installs of PodServe, primarily because of the ability to integrate VoIP telephony into a corporate podcasting program.
What is PodCall? It's a new feature where you give us a phone number and PodServe will call you at that number, let you walk through a simple phone tree and record a podcast just like you would leave a voicemail. PodServe will then automatically drop that sound file into the right podcast stream for you, within minutes of completing the call.
Also, we've secretly added the ability to add .mov and .mp4 files to your PodServe podcasts, so you can vlog as well with the service. We'll limit the files to 100MB right now.
Technorati Tags: biginjapan, podcast, podserve, youtube
We talked with Chris Messina about Barcamp, Teh Space and other building blocks for independents. He's an open source rabble rouser that we always learn a lot from & are inspired by.
Listen to the podcast:
Technorati Tags: barcamp, brian oberkirch, chris+messina, coworking, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
Rebecca Blood gave a great keynote at the New Communications Forum in Palo Alto in early March. We talked with her later that day about the evolution of blogging and how connection is really the key ingredient to all this.
Listen to the podcast:
Technorati Tags: brian oberkirch, new+communications+forum, rebecca+blood, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
We talked with Anil Dash to get his POV on the good, bad & ugly of corporate blogging. As usual, he's charming & insightful. Can you tell we're Anil fans? We even have the t shirt.
Listen to the podcast:
Technorati Tags: anil dash, blog comments, blogs, brian oberkirch, corporate+blogging, movabletype, sixapart, typepad, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
A few of the folks from the Palo Alto PR 2.0 discussion got together for another chat this week. I talked with Mike Manuel, Josh Hallett and David Parmet about a post Mike did a few weeks ago on the social media services gap. We focus on the unique challenges agencies face when working in social media, and what we as workers on the frontlines can do to improve.
Listen to the podcast:
Technorati Tags: brian oberkirch, david parmet, josh hallett, mike+manuel, podcast, pr2.0, public+relations, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes
We chatted with Josh Hallett & Jeremy Harrington about how designing blogs and highly interactive Web applications is a bit different from traditional interactive design challenges. I think we're just beginning to wrap our heads around designing for data (check out Tom Coates as a great guide) so we'll keep these types of podcasts going.
Listen to the podcast:
Technorati Tags: blogs, brian oberkirch, design, hyku, jeremy+harrington, josh hallett, podcast, tom+coates, web 2.0, web+design, web+development, Weblogs+Work, Weblogs+Worknotes