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gummib: which aspect of the site is slow? We're working on speeding up the episode/channel pages; if you have any thoughts, let me know. Thanks!

Andy: thanks for checking out the new Odeo! I'm happy to hear that you like the new site and are finding it useful. We are working on speeding up our crawler so that shows are found closer to the time they are published. We also do have some social features; for exmaple, you will see a listing on your dashboard when a friend subscribes to a new podcast. We're also planning integration with social networks (Facebook, etc.) which should make some of this easier as well.

Thanks again for the post, if there's anything else I can do, or if you have any other thoughts/suggestions/critiques, just let me know (greg AT odeo DOT com).

A recent entertainment weekly article used "ace" as an adjective. I suppose it's entirely possible this is a coincidence. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20190159,00.html

We all thought this 4 years ago. We were wrong. Facebook is just too easy. No messing with RSS feeds, no cutting and pasting embed codes. Normal people aren't going to get their own blog just to share pictures with their family. Facebook is really just a blogging tool that abstracts subscription into something called friending.

Blogging is losing it's social media nature; it's more and more just web content. Wordpress could make itself as easy to use as Facebook, but then it'd just be a Facebook clone.

Half the fun of putting together a new application is figuring out how and where you're going to get your data! Who doesn't have fond memories of writing a parser for US census data to extract zip code data?

In all seriousness, this would be a tremendous boon to application developers.

Aren't entrepreneurs selling ideas everyday? Every startup that gets funding is selling an idea to investors, no?

Thanks Nick! I hope that Odeo can play a positive role in the growing DC startup community. There's a lot of great momentum and I think things are going to start to heat up very soon!