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What's next for Odeo?
Now that SonicMountain has acquired Odeo, what does the future hold for the podcasting site? NewTeevee asked SonicMountain President Rick Arturo and CEO Jack Roken that question, and it turns out the answer can be summed up in one word: plastics. No, I mean video.Roken and Arturo say SonicMountain plans to add video to the podcast aggregation site, either by partnering with a video provider or perhaps by acquiring another company.
The new Odeo will also include improved podcast/vlog search and discovery tools. The goal is to have a huge library of audio and video content available for search. SonicMountain is seeking a patent for technology that crawls and indexes data from podcast text as well as metadata like ID3 tags, which could make searching for audio or video files on a particular topic much easier on Odeo than on competing sites.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
