2008-07-15 02:01:00
New Design Integrates Video, Audio, Search
NEW YORK–(EMWNews)–As one of the original podcast destination sites, Odeo
today announced the relaunch of its flagship website, http://odeo.com.
Completely redesigned and managed under a new development team, Odeo now
features millions of online syndicated audio and video episodes
aggregated from thousands of websites. Users can search and discover
over 500,000 channels, browse by category or keywords, subscribe to
content, create playlists and get custom recommendations.
“With so many sources of syndicated content online, our team set out to
create a simplified media experience that really helps users find and
manage quality content,” said Rick Arturo,
President of Sonic Mountain, the parent company of Odeo.
“The result is an improved Odeo experience that still retains what the
original team envisioned, while adding the most requested features of
video and enhanced search.”
Features include:
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Search & explore over 500,000 channels with millions of audio & video
episodes
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Browse by category or by keyword tags
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Subscribe to channels & get notified when new episodes are published
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Rate & review content
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Collect favorites & create playlists
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Create a profile page & connect with friends
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Get recommendations & discover new and relevant content
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Share content via email or embed into external sites & social networks
“I’m really excited to see this relaunch of Odeo,” said Evan Williams,
co-founder of Twitter, and former founder of both Odeo
and Blogger. “The new team has done a fantastic job of re-imagining how
to offer a great user experience to a wide variety of interesting
content.”
Odeo also announced strategic partnerships with leading online media
networks including Blip.tv, NextNewNetworks and Revision3 to provide
distribution and promotions for a variety of syndicated media. Through
an innovative partnership with Boston-based Matchmine.com, Odeo has also
joined the new MatchKey network of sites to provide better
recommendations across a wide variety of content.
Odeo will continue to add features such as
synchronization with mobile devices, streamlined embedding of audio and
video for social networks plus an upgraded set of recording tools
through Odeo Studio. “We’ve
begun migration of Odeo’s popular free tool
for podcast producers, Odeo Studio, over to the new site,” said
Eric Rupert, Chief Operations Officer. “The
recording function will be part of a larger suite of tools that allow
subscribers to submit audio and video comments back to producers.”
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