PALM DESERT, Calif. and BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- At the DEMO 07 conference today, Yodio, Inc. unveiled its one-stop audio publishing service and online marketplace -- a Web community for anyone to create, publish, and buy/sell personal audio recordings. Yodio gives meaning to podcasting by enabling consumers to easily record their own 'short-tracks' by phone using Yodio's toll-free service or manually upload their prerecorded MP3 files. Designed to take advantage of speech recognition, Yodio also features three easy-to-use tools for personalizing and packaging Yodio files. Yodio is capitalizing on the recent growth of user-generated content and portable digital media devices (iPods, MP3 players and digital cameras).
"Yodio is to podcasting as Blogger was to blogging -- an easy to use Web application that helped define a new application category. Yodio not only provides best-of-breed features that consumers will love to use, but Yodio has delivered a unique platform for easily creating, capturing and distributing rich media content," says Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO conferences.
Yodio(TM) redefines podcasting by enabling consumers to record personalized audio tracks from any phone, mix with their digital images, and publish high-impact stories to the Web for purchase and download.
"Every picture needs a story; a photo plus audio creates a compelling story," comments former Corbis CEO and current ZoomAlbum CEO Doug Rowan. "Photographs by themselves don't really tell the stories. You need people to tell the stories. Yodio is delivering on this need."
"For a majority of consumers, creating podcasts is too difficult. It requires new hardware, software and time. Also missing is an incentive to record and way for consumers to market and monetize their own content. Yodio is unique, fresh and different. Yodio's goal is simple: we want everyone to share their cultural experiences, travel tips, business insight or entertainment (music, comedy, etc) in audio form and post it for others to benefit by saving time and money. Everyone can become a 'citizen journalist' by sharing their tips with the world. And, to someone, somewhere, those tips are worth a small fee," says Clay Loges, Yodio President and CEO.
Today, Yodio demonstrated a suite of features that help consumers get inspired to embrace podcasting and provides a unique social network focused on creating and delivering user-generated audio content:
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