Odeo, podcasting startup-turned-online “digital media management” company, announced today that it has executed a Software as a Service (SaaS) contract with a(n unnamed) NY-based Fortune 100 financial institution. This is the firm’s first enterprise software customer. Founded in 2005 by Evan Williams (Blogger, Twitter) as a consumer-focused podcasting portal, Odeo had some ups and downs, […]

Podcasting site Odeo has relaunched. Again. We have kind of lost count, but Beta News says that this is Odeo’s sixth launch. Initially launched mid-2005, Odeo debuts (again) with a number of new features. The biggest addition to the site is video, but other new capabilities allow users to: — Search & explore over 500,000 […]

Odeo, an early podcasting startup that has long struggled with its direction, is back, in beta and looking for feedback. While the original site focused on podcast creation, the focus of Odeo’s latest incarnation focuses on viewing and listening to Internet media. Give it a look and let me know what you think of the […]

Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee reports that SonicMountain, the company that recently acquired the once-hyped podcasting startup Odeo, has purchased FireAnt, a stagnating Internet video startup. FireAnt is a desktop media player and RSS aggregator for Windows and Mac. With an integrated guide to Internet TV, the FireAnt player lets users subscribe to, download, and […]

RodeoUP is a free video sharing site that’s like YouTube for cowboys. It’s the official video community of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association. But you don’t have to be a cowboy to enjoy the site. Anybody can rate videos, embed them in their blogs or just enjoy watching what happens when you put a cowboy […]

The Amergence Group announced today that it acquiring SonicMountain, the parent company of podcasting community Odeo.com. Under the terms of the agreement, SonicMountain will become a wholly owned subsidiary of The Amergence Group. According to the Amergence Group: Now, SonicMountain will have the resources to revolutionize Odeo’s environment and add exciting new features to its […]

Podcast aggregation site Odeo today announced that its assets have been acquired by SonicMountain, a New York based company focused in the digital media hosting and search marketplace. Odeo was among the first commercial podcasting sites, launched in July 2005, and is designed to make it easy to listen, download and subscribe to podcasts. The […]

Rob Greenlee informs us that technology business magazine Red Herring has just announced that mobile podcasting company Melodeo Mobilcast has been named to their Red Herring Spring 2007 Top 100 technology company list. Rob is Senior Marketing Manager at Melodeo Mobilcast and longtime player in Internet radio and podcasting. Red Herring’s May 1 – 3 […]

Melodeo, Inc. today announced the availability of ‘Mobilcast Hi-fi’ to wireless operators. Mobilcast Hi-fi is a new patent-pending, low-bandwidth, hi-fidelity version of their industry-leading Mobilcast mobile entertainment service. Mobilcast Hi-fi allows wireless operators to offer hi-fidelity music and audio programs over existing mobile networks using standard codecs. Mobilcast Hi-fi automatically adapts to different phones and […]

Odeo, a podcasting community that was one of the darlings of early podcasting coverage in the mainstream media, is looking for a buyer: In the last few months, we here at Obvious have been increasingly focused on Twitter. As a result, our original product, Odeo, has not gotten the attention it deserves. It does not […]