RodeWorks

Lately I’m feeling a little overloaded, trying to keep track of all the new products in the web 2.0 world — its kind of nuts. Many will disappear almost as quickly as they appear, and I think as products consolidate it will help spread the adoption. Remember back in the good old days when there were a dozen or so web search engines, and you were never quite sure which one was the right one to use. Then some sites created mega-search pages that ran the same search through multiple engines. Isn’t is so much easier these days when you know you just have to use Google? So how many podcasting, rss feed readers, blogs, social bookmarking, content management systems, etc. do we really need? Probably not quite as many as there are brewing currently .

That being said this one has some interesting twists and might be worth watching. Its built, in part, on top of the open source telephone system Asterisk, and is focused on education. The development site is just getting up and running (being built in Drupal I noticed) so there isn’t a lot there yet.

Introducing Classcaster - A full featured blogging and podcasting system for educators.

I do think audio content is going to be a growing factor in on line education resources. I see the younger generation being less tied to a computer, and more mobile, using cell phones and iPods. Delivering traditional print content via the web is going to start to look old fashioned (if it isn’t already) — audio, and to a lesser extent video, is going to be the way to reach this mobile generation.