The Idea: Lectures that live on.
Meedu's podcasting service provides students with download-on-demand recordings
of lectures. Now, the classroom experience can be revisited as many times
as the student wishes, whether during the studying process, or even years
later.
And unlike the hosting services provided by Apple's iTunes U, Meedu will
allow any student to download and use your podcasts - not just those who
use Apple software.
The Technology: Open tools for everyone.
Unix way: build small tools and chain them together. Webcasting production
suffers from the same problems you see in the Windows world: one monolithic
application which tries to do too much. For over 30 years, the "unix" operating
system has built itself around the idea that smaller simple tools are better.
If you have a plethora of tightly defined small tools, you can chain them
together in any way to do anything you want.
Most importantly, you are not limited because you only have one large tool
which is rigid and inflexible. Meedu subscribes to this philosophy. We want
to give you several great simple podcasting tools: bandwidth in a simple
interface, management in a simple interface, production in a simple interface,
and statistics in a simple interface. When you use the meedu tools, you'll
understand.
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Simple bandwidth: Cal-ITEC/UCSD and other schools offering unlimited bandwidth and ample storage, there is no metering and no complicated hosting plans.
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Simple management: Meedu has a streamlined and simple interface. Drag and drop and click and go.
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Simple production: Meedu can integrate with a Podcast in a Box appliance for foolproof operation. Just plug in your USB thumbdrive to start, and remove the thumbdrive to stop and publish.
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Simple statistics: Meedu generates CSV files of all your access, and simple graphs to show you quickly how your media has been received.

