Podomatic
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Main purpose
PodOmatic is a web application that allows you to create podcast and classify them in a variety of categories. In addition, there are tags that facilitate the search of existing podcasts.
Useful information
There are two main version of Podomatic: basic and pro. The main differences among those two versions are related to storage capacity and bandwidth per month. Anyone can create podcasts through six steps:
- You have to choose the title and description of the podcast
- There is an option to select the audio and / or video content of which a podcast will be composed. Audio / video content can be downloaded from the desktop, Media Library or even recorded over microphone or Webcam.
- It is possible to upload photos or choose them from the Media Library, or enter the URL where the desired photo is located.
- You can specify keywords or tags that will simplify and facilitate searching of podcasts.
- Before publishing you can review and make changes over created podcast
- There are a number of option how podcast can be promote – via popular social networks, social bookmarking sites, e-mail, etc.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- ease of registration
- possibility of promotion of created podcasts
Cons
- incompatibility with some web browsers
- lack of soung in created podcasts
- the process of making a podcast is too long
Reference
Tool accessibility test (28 July 2010)
Server Response Time test performed from Seattle, WA / Munich, Germany / Brisbane, Australia : 0.226 sec / 1.233 sec / 1.613 sec
Server Response Time Scale: Less than 0,1 = Optimal; 0,1 - 1 = Acceptable; 1 - 4 = Noticable but tolerable delay; 4 - 8 = Bearly tolerant delay
This tool has help included on the tool's webpage (link): http://www.podomatic.com/help/articles
There is no possiblity of changing the type or size of fonts in the tool (it can be done only as a browser functionality).
