Odeo

Seven of the best sites about the video & audio search engine and sharing site Odeo. Know of another site that should be listed here? Leave your suggestion at the bottom of the page. (Related searches: Video Search, Funny Videos, Video Blogs)

1. Odeo - Search over a million audio and video files from thousands of Web sites. Download them or play them straight from the site. (www.odeo.com)

2. Odeo at Wikipedia - Online encyclopedia track’s Odeo’s history from its celebrated founding by Evan Williams (of Blogger and Twitter fame) and Noah Glass, to its eventual sale to Sonic Mountain as Williams turned his company’s focus to Twitter. (en.wikipedia.org)

3. Odeo Refocuses Efforts on Enterprise Video Solutions - April, 2009 blog post on Odeo getting its first enterprise software customer, executing “a Software as a Service (SaaS) contract with a(n unnamed) NY-based Fortune 100 financial institution,” which Odeo’s president calls a pioneering step into “an enormous new market: enterprise video management.” We’re not sure what that all means, but they sound excited. (www.podcastingnews.com)

4. How Odeo Happened - February 25, 2005 blog post from Odeo co-founder and then-CEO Evan Williams’ blog gives you the story of the company’s beginnings. Williams later sold Odeo to concentrate on the mega-successful Twitter. (www.evhead.com)

5. Odeo Tee Shirt at Flickr - Photo of an early Odeo T-shirt design that features a chirping bird — posted by Biz Stone, who later coined the name Twitter for the company’s messaging service that became its core business. (www.flickr.com)

6. Breaking: Odeo Acquired by SonicMountain - May 9, 2007 blog post on the sale of Odeo by its founder Evan Williams to SonicMountain, which continues to own and operate Odeo today. (www.techcrunch.com)

7. Will Odeo Be Twitter? - October, 2006 blog post in which Om Malik predicted Odeo would change its name its name to Twitter, its “SMS based moblogging service.” While not a spot-on prediction, he was mostly correct in the fact that Odeo was eventually sold off to focus on Twitter. (gigaom.com)

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