Odeo was a directory and search destination website for
RSS
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-syndicated audio and video. It employed tools that enabled users to create, record, and share
podcasts with a simple
Adobe Flash
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-based interface.
Odeo was originally developed in 2004 by founders
Noah Glass
Noah Glass is an American technology entrepreneur, whose early work included launching Twitter and Odeo, a podcasting company that closed in 2017. Glass is credited for coining the name "Twitter", which began as "Twttr".
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and
Evan Williams, who were the founders of Audioblog and
Pyra Labs
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History
Pyra was co-founded by Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan. The company's first product, also named "Pyra", was a web ...
, respectively, and received funding from
Charles River Ventures
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The firm has ra ...
. Subsequently, Williams bought out Charles River's interest in the company, as well as that of several other investors, and re‑formed the organization under a new company,
Obvious Corporation
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Twitter ...
, which planned to develop new products, including
Twitter
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.
History
On February 19, 2007, Williams wrote in his
blog that Odeo was for sale. It was acquired soon afterwards by New York-based Sonic Mountain.
On September 14, 2007, Sonic Mountain announced that it had acquired the technology assets of FireAnt, an RSS
video-aggregation website and desktop media player, and that it planned to incorporate FireAnt's technology into Odeo. On March 18, 2008, Sonic Mountain announced that it had acquired Blogdigger, a
search engine
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for blogs and RSS content, with plans to incorporate the technology into Odeo.
In June 2008, Odeo was relaunched by Sonic Mountain with a completely redesigned site and an expanded focus on search and discovery for syndicated audio and video.
In March 2009, Odeo began its transition to a fee-based service for large corporations looking to manage their video libraries. Targeting companies that needed to organize and track video usage, Odeo released its “Enterprise Video Management” platform as a
Software as a Service
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SaaS is cons ...
(SaaS) solution. Their first customers included such notables as
American Express and eGA.
In August 2010, Odeo suspended its support of the consumer site odeo.com to focus its attention on enterprise video.
As of 2017, Odeo's domain has expired and sold.
See also
*
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References
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External links
"Web 2.0 Winners and Losers" - ''Wired'' article
Internet properties established in 2004
Podcasting companies