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Podango’s P2 Platform now on beta

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podango.jpgPodango, a new media hosting, publishing and advertising platform, announced that a beta version of its P2 Platform is now available. The P2 Platform is designed to enable audio, video and blog publishers to deliver a fully integrated experience to their audience, in addition it makes it easy to embed media across sites, seamlessly add advertising and measure performance metrics. Publishers can start using the beta platform by creating their site at www.podango.com/p2.

Podango is providing podcasters (audio and video) with the most flexible and rich publishing platform. The platform’s rich feature set includes a complete set of tools for content creators including publishing tools for audio, video, and blogging, metric monitoring tools, search engine optimization (SEO), integrated advertising and the ability to embed the player in other sites. The streamlined end-user experience includes easy subscription, elegant presentation, and rich feedback mechanisms.

“With the launch of P2 beta, Podango is providing a single, complete, integrated platform for new media publishers,” said Lee Gibbons, CEO, Podango. “From hosting to monetizing to finding premiere content, the new media tools that are now available through Podango streamline the entire audio, video, and blog audience experience and publishing process.”

Originally posted on June 22, 2007 @ 4:50 am

Odiogo adds listen button for enabling read aloud blog posts

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odiogo-listen.jpgOdiogo, a service which lets online publications and blogs create audible versions of content, announced yesterday an easier way for users to interact with this audio content. It’s called the Listen Button and it’s designed to be embedded in an article or post near familiar buttons like email and print.

The Listen Button, when clicked on, opens a player which reads aloud the currently displayed article. This new feature is apparently already in use by a variety of Web sites, including the Online Edition of the Jerusalem Post and the popular tech gadget blog The Red Ferret Journal.

Odiogo added the free Listen Button “has been adapted for major blogging platforms. Starter kits have been developed to quickly install the button on blogs developed in the WordPress, Blogger or TypePad environments.”

Originally posted on June 8, 2007 @ 1:46 pm

Using Webinars as an E-Marketing Tool

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Studies have shown that webinars are an effective and cost efficient tool in reaching out to people. Small business owners and companies have recognized its importance and are now utilizing it for marketing and list building purposes.

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While it’s true that the most popular social media platforms are doing a great job in helping businesses market their products and services, the webinar system has its own advantage over them. For one, it generates a low cost for every lead and a high level of engagement with target audience. Secondly, it is considered the second most effective method in terms of content marketing and thirdly, it promotes greater satisfaction among students thereby contributing to a higher study success rate.

Webinar vs Podcast

Compared to the podcast, the webinar has an edge in that it allows real time interaction with the attendees. This is efficient in clarifying certain issues clients and potential clients have about a particular product or service. Engagement is also assured in this method of communication. [Read more…]

Originally posted on April 24, 2013 @ 1:10 am

Web-Based Media Player Muziic Lets You Play and Organize YouTube and Vevo Music

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Say goodbye to pesky and obtrusive ads whenever you want to listen to free songs featured on music videos on YouTube. Likewise, say goodbye to those annoying country-specific restrictions that renders most songs practically un-streamable if you live in Timbuktu. Thanks to new site Muziic you can now enjoy those two benefits brought by the free Internet.

First started as a Windows application, Muziic then lets you organize and manage music collections from songs featured on YouTube videos. Think of it as the Windows iTunes for YouTube, that also lets you rip mp3s to YouTube.

To make its service more relevant, Muziic recently launched a web-based media player. And while they were at it, they brought along music video start-up Vevo which went public recently.

So, what do this bring us, free music loving Internet citizens?  Free songs, as in millions of them with accompanying videos to boot.

And then what else? Muziic also lets you register on the site so that you can create your music playlist. It has a very efficient search engine which offers direct song access similar to iTunes does. For those who couldn’t live without sharing things with their friends to social networks, Muziic also just recently rolled out a Facebook app. How about an iPhone app? Not yet but it’s coming pretty soon, I hope.

An online service as good as this is not without a glitch of course. For one thing, Muziic removes country-restriction to video contents from Vevo. While this may seem ok for now, Vevo is said to be looking at it right now. Hopefully, they won’t do something to spoil Muziic’s party.

Via Wired

Originally posted on December 28, 2009 @ 8:00 pm