Odeo

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Odeo

URL	http://www.odeo.com/
Type of site	Podcast publishing and aggregation
Registration	Free
Owner	Sonic Mountain, Inc.
Created by	Evan Williams & Noah Glass
Launched	July 2005

Odeo is an online application that allows for recording and sharing podcasts with a simple Macromedia Flash-based interface. It also contains a directory and radio, with podcast channels. Odeo was developed by founders Noah Glass and Evan Williams, who were previously founders of Audioblog and Pyra Labs respectively, and received funding from Charles River Ventures. Subsequently, Williams bought out Charles River's interest in the company, as well as several other investors, and reformed the organization under a new company, Obvious Corp, which planned to develop new products, including Twitter.

On February 19, 2007, Evan Williams wrote in his blog that Odeo was for sale. On May 10, 2007 New York-based Sonic Mountain acquired Odeo.^[1]

On September 14, 2007, Sonic Mountain announced it had acquired the technology assets of FireAnt, an RSS video aggregation website and desktop media player, with plans to incorporate this technology into the Odeo service.^[2]

On March 18, 2008, Sonic Mountain announced it had acquired Blogdigger, a search engine for blogs and RSS content, with plans to incorporate the technology into Odeo.^[3]

[edit] Trademark Suspension

As of October 19, 2007, Sonic Mountain's United States Patent and Trademark Office application for the wordmark "odeo" has been suspended and ruled subsequent pending the disposition of a previous application by a shareholder in SonicMountain, John J. Roken.^[4]