Check it! The all-knowing
Mike Chambers at Adobe has published an
Odeo Search API for the Flex 2 beta (along with Flickr, YouTube, del.icio.us, and a few others).
Also, I'm told that there will be
no charge going forward for the free
Flex 2.0 SDK. So, you've got that going for you.
Posted by Dom at 3/30/2006
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Odeo was
nominated for technical achievement at the SXSW Web Awards earlier this month but we were edged out by those crafty techies at
Technorati. That's why we're glad
we took home the gold in SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards. That's right folks, you are reading the blog of the number one podcasting site in the whole wide world. Do you feel taller? We do!
Posted by Biz at 3/29/2006
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We've created the
Odeo User Forum for everyone to use. Please feel free to suggest ideas,
bugs, or anything about Odeo or podcasting.
Also, you can subscribe to the forum via
RSS.
Posted by Dom at 3/28/2006
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Preetam Rai did a great overview of
how to use odeo to create podcasts, step by step, on his
better days blog.
He uses an example of a travel podcast of his trip to Thailand as an example. It's rainy and foggy here in San Francisco, a podcast audio journal of topical beaches sounds pretty nice.
Erik Benson, a rails hacker with the
robot coop in Seattle is using odeo to keep a
daily audio journal.
Do you have a story about using odeo in ways we haven't discovered yet?
Posted by Rabble at 3/24/2006
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O.K. you die-hard bitchomping web 2.0 geargrrlz and fanboys out there coding cool apps that bring service providers to their knees. Wanna Talk Tech? Tech entries in the Odeo blog will give you a peek behind the scenes at Odeo. These entries will be useful for those of you who have to grapple with hard questions on how to keep your site and service up.
The webwrld is full of benchmarks and specs for serving up transactions and downloads. What do you do when your cool web service (like Odeo) gets dotted but it doesn't consume neatly packaged database transactions or serve up simple web pages? What if your service (like the in-browser recording served up by Odeo) keeps a lot of things in-flight in the course of delivering the goods? Things like audio recording, database updates, feed polling, podcasting, media streaming, directory searches. These things do a street fight beat down on the most pimped out fully spec'ed server.
The big question: How do you take the pain so your partners and happy users can have the joy of cool tools while you deliver the performance they need?
The big answer: At Odeo, we push our servers and pipes till they break then we get creative. We look at our traffic, some short lived like pings, some long lived like recording sessions. We change our server mix and processor architectures: intel P4, AMD Opteron, power miser Capricorn servers (using the VIA chipset and M10000 Mini ITX motherboard). We do some benchmarks some ad-hoc, some intensely focused stress tests as time permits. Finally we rotate into pole position the server/architecture/gerbil-on-steroids that handles the job the best. Unfortunately we don't have an unlimited budget to try things out. So when an opportunity like the one from Sun's offer to
try the Sun Fire T2000 server free (Free, FREE!) comes along you jump at the chance to throw it in the mix.
The small question: Where do you start?
The small answer: You can start your Odeo tech here in the blog, but serious in-depth stuff will continue in the newly launched
Odeo forum. First getting the server up to snuff.
Configure system parameters as recommended. Also update the preinstalled software by running "smpatch update". Once we did this we were ready to use this hot new cool box to solve some of the pain points of serving up fresh new web 2.0 services.
How Do You find the Pain Points in a Web 2.0 server environment?
A web 2.0 server environment is a combination of cpu boxes, storage, databases, session caches, and loadbalancers linked by networking. Each of these systems has their own measurement and management tools, but nothing really goes across all the systems. How do we know where to put the box in this dynamic and complex system in order to test it's performance in different roles? (Begin AHA!) How-za-boot we poot de complex system in da box, and de lime in de coconut? The T2000 has 16 processors tons of Memory; as many processors and as much memory as some of the dinky little server farms we walk by in the Co-Lo. Then we can use the performance measurement tools in Solaris that Sun is always bragging about to find out where components are being stressed, what systems are most affected by increases in traffic. (End of AHA!)
Next Up: A web 2.0 environment on Solaris? A.K.A. What Are You Smoking?
Posted by courtney at 3/24/2006
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MarketWatch: "The latest episode [of Ricky Gervais Show] ranks as the 11th most popular album in the iTunes Music Store, ahead of music releases by Nickleback and All-American Rejects. In the audio books category, Gervais holds down the top 5 slots, ahead of 'The DaVinci Code.'
"The British comedian's decision to begin charging $1.95 for podcasts created a stir in the podcast community. He also created revenue, although Audible Inc.executives won't reveal how much."
I think that's a great milestone for podcasting. People want to listen to good stuff! And they'll even pay for it!
Posted by Ev. at 3/24/2006
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Here's a little page that describes
how to put a 'Send Me a Message' button on your site.
Of course, if you're really tricky (like
Rabble), you can use the embedded message recorder.
Here's an example from our crackerjack Support Lead,
Crystal:
You can cut and paste this code into your blog, or on any Web page - just replace Crystal's username with yours:
<iframe
src="http://www.odeo.com/send_me_a_message/CrystalTaylor/embedded"
width="370px" height="450px" scrolling="no" FRAMEBORDER=0
name="send_me_a_message">
</iframe>
Posted by Dom at 3/15/2006
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Already have MP3s on the Web? Now you can
add them individually to Odeo.
A few ways to use this:
- Add MP3s from the Web to your existing channel
- Create a new channel of found sounds (a la del.icio.us or see my example)
- Create playlists or subsets of your Odeo creations
- Send personal messages with audio links
Any other ideas? Link away!
Posted by Dom at 3/15/2006
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If you're at
South by Southwest, check out the Odeo party tonight:
Velvet Spade, 912 Red River Road - 9:00pm
Ev and Biz are throwing it. That's two. I'm pretty sure
Case will be there, and I'd be surprised if
Willo didn't show. Probably
Veen, too.
Want more info? Tune in to the
SxSW What's Happening Line.
Posted by Dom at 3/13/2006
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