Posts Tagged with ‘odeo’

In February of this year, Evan Williams, the mind behind Odeo, a podcast-centric startup, put his business up on the auction block. Here we are several months later, and he’s got a buyer: New York-based SonicMountain. The new owner of the audio aggregator allegedly forked over just north of $1 million in cash for the whole nine yards.
Upon hearing this news, many of you familiar with Ev Williams and his ideas might be wondering whether Twitter, the abomination public blog [...]

 
So, Odeo founder Ev Williams has put his website up for sale. Anyone care? We do. Odeo may not have been the most popular kid in school, and even got picked on by that bully in Cupertino (Apple). But it has served many a podcast and podcaster well. Though its visitorship pales in comparison to iTunes, it’s still seeing over 600k hello messages from IPs around the world every month, and doling out 3 million pages/audio files to fans with [...]