Sorry I haven’t written in a while. We’ve been crazy busy! We just did a soft beta launch…which means we are controlling access and rolling out features and bug fixes almost daily while people help us test things out. If you’re interested in helping test PodGlo then Click Here and request a Beta invite. Mention that you came from our blog in the message section.
We attended PodcampNYC again this year. In fact we were a sponsor of the event. It was great fun and we had a more mature product to show off. My partner, Peter, and I are both technologists so sometimes we get carried away in the technology and forget that people aren’t at the same level that we are when thinking about micropodcasting. The big thing we learned at PodcampNYC is that we need to simplify our message. This is why when you first go to PodGlo you see, right in the middle of the screen,
“PodGlo lets you create micropodcasts {short, recorded audio thoughts} on the fly…from anywhere. It is quick, simple, and fun.”
Followed by:
- Create micropodcasts easily using a web-based recorder or phone
- Create audio conversations around any topic
- Get a fully interactive PodGlo widget for your site
- Listen and reply to micropodcasts directly from email or SMS (text message)
- Share your micropodcasts by email, SMS (text message) or Twitter.
- Quickly download MP3’s of micropodcasts
- Subscribe to, play and reply from within RSS Readers (like Google Reader)
We also added a lot of Join links because it is what we want people to do the most right now. It’s probably still a little off, I think, but we will continue to tweak the message so please feel free to leave suggestions. Also, we are working on what I call the flow. This is how we guide you though the site to show you how simple it is to create micropodcasts and our super-advanced widget that is fully interactive and bi-directional.
Another interesting thing that happened last week is that I used Twitter to communicate with a user in London and he helped us troubleshoot our web-based recorder. Turns out he was using the GB (Great Britian) version of Firefox and we hadn’t taken that into account yet for our international users. It was the first time that I am aware of that anyone has used Twitter to debug a web application/service. How cool is that! I can tell you the user loved it. You could feel the excitement when we got it all working for him.
I can promise you that I will be writing here a lot more. We are finally emerging from the heads-down, code as if nothing else matters phase into the ‘hey, customers let us help you’ phase. Also, please don’t judge us to harshly just now on our ‘flow’. This is a new-born baby and we are just starting to try to get up and totter about.
Talk to you all soon!
- Doug Kersten
