Comments on: New Audio Feed Via Odiogo http://optempo.com/2007/11/18/new-audio-feed-via-odiogo/ Money Saving Reviews | Money Saving Buying Guides Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:16:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: jfc http://optempo.com/2007/11/18/new-audio-feed-via-odiogo/#comment-402 jfc Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:09:20 +0000 http://optempo.com/2007/11/18/new-audio-feed-via-odiogo/#comment-402 Thanks for stopping by Bob, I think having a searchable catalog of feeds would be a big plus. As I mentioned, having a desktop app that hooked into a web service you provided and did searches and automatic downloading would be great. On the feed, I could be that my feed is still having problems after my recent theme update. I've noticed some flakiness with it with some other services. As for user friendliness, one easy thing you could do would be to provide a help page or popup from your site feed page that gave "how tos" for non techie users. You've got an innovative service so I hope you can really get it growing. Thanks for stopping by Bob,

I think having a searchable catalog of feeds would be a big plus. As I mentioned, having a desktop app that hooked into a web service you provided and did searches and automatic downloading would be great.

On the feed, I could be that my feed is still having problems after my recent theme update. I’ve noticed some flakiness with it with some other services.

As for user friendliness, one easy thing you could do would be to provide a help page or popup from your site feed page that gave “how tos” for non techie users.

You’ve got an innovative service so I hope you can really get it growing.

]]> By: Bob http://optempo.com/2007/11/18/new-audio-feed-via-odiogo/#comment-400 Bob Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:18:45 +0000 http://optempo.com/2007/11/18/new-audio-feed-via-odiogo/#comment-400 Frank - thanks for your review of Odiogo. A few comments on the 'downside' elements pinpointed: - Catalog of Odiogo enabled feeds. Well, this is something we're considering - including the ability to search blogs/posts by subject. Please check our blog for future announcements. - Updates. By default, our engine checks blogs for updates (new or modified posts) every couple of hours. It is possible to override this setting through a call to our XML-RPC server which will increase significantly the availability of the audio file. More on this here: http://blog.odiogo.com/index.php/2007/11/12/odiogo-rpc-support-in-wordpress-hosted/ - Targeted users. We believe the audio rendition is not only targeted towards 'techy’ users. While it’s a great feature for visually impaired and language learners, we receive lots of positive feedback from multitaskers who like listening to posts while doing something else or commuters who appreciate taking their favorite RSS on the go. - End user friendliness department. We try to be as innovative and responsive as possible - Please let us know if there's anything we can do improve the friendliness :-) Frank - thanks for your review of Odiogo. A few comments on the ‘downside’ elements pinpointed:
- Catalog of Odiogo enabled feeds. Well, this is something we’re considering - including the ability to search blogs/posts by subject. Please check our blog for future announcements.
- Updates. By default, our engine checks blogs for updates (new or modified posts) every couple of hours. It is possible to override this setting through a call to our XML-RPC server which will increase significantly the availability of the audio file. More on this here: http://blog.odiogo.com/index.php/2007/11/12/odiogo-rpc-support-in-wordpress-hosted/
- Targeted users. We believe the audio rendition is not only targeted towards ‘techy’ users. While it’s a great feature for visually impaired and language learners, we receive lots of positive feedback from multitaskers who like listening to posts while doing something else or commuters who appreciate taking their favorite RSS on the go.
- End user friendliness department. We try to be as innovative and responsive as possible - Please let us know if there’s anything we can do improve the friendliness :-)

]]> By: jfc http://optempo.com/2007/11/18/new-audio-feed-via-odiogo/#comment-394 jfc Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:13:38 +0000 http://optempo.com/2007/11/18/new-audio-feed-via-odiogo/#comment-394 Hi Saedel, I'm also not sure how useful it will be. However, I like playing around with new things like Odiogo to see how well they work. What I think would be cool would be a web service app that would pull the feeds you wanted down and you could either have them automatically load onto your portable player or you could pick and choose articles. I think you can do this with iTunes, for a price, but one that worked with ordinary MP3 players us cheap folks like. Hi Saedel,

I’m also not sure how useful it will be. However, I like playing around with new things like Odiogo to see how well they work.

What I think would be cool would be a web service app that would pull the feeds you wanted down and you could either have them automatically load onto your portable player or you could pick and choose articles. I think you can do this with iTunes, for a price, but one that worked with ordinary MP3 players us cheap folks like.

]]> By: Saedel http://optempo.com/2007/11/18/new-audio-feed-via-odiogo/#comment-391 Saedel Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:44:29 +0000 http://optempo.com/2007/11/18/new-audio-feed-via-odiogo/#comment-391 Wow Frank, I think it's awesome. I listened to the audio feed. You are right, the voice sounded okay, but funny as well. Somehow, the speech doesn't end in punctuation and it reads continuously. There were also times that it repeated a sentence. But hey, what do I know? :P This is the first time I've listened to a blogpost, imagine that. As for my blog, I still don't see the need to use Odiogo or any other audio feed, as most of my readers are non-technical people if you know what I mean. That is why I have to write in the "most laymen's terms" as much as I can. Nice post by the way. *thumb-up* -Saedel Wow Frank, I think it’s awesome. I listened to the audio feed. You are right, the voice sounded okay, but funny as well. Somehow, the speech doesn’t end in punctuation and it reads continuously. There were also times that it repeated a sentence.

But hey, what do I know? :P This is the first time I’ve listened to a blogpost, imagine that.

As for my blog, I still don’t see the need to use Odiogo or any other audio feed, as most of my readers are non-technical people if you know what I mean. That is why I have to write in the “most laymen’s terms” as much as I can.

Nice post by the way. *thumb-up*

-Saedel

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