Russ had a pretty good experience with Orb.com. Orb.com allows you to stream media files from your home PC.
This is the part which pricked my ears:
This could really be a great "Personal Streaming Radio" station. If you have an iPodder downloading into a Podcasts directory which is then shared out with Orb? That's pretty freakin' awesome. Though honestly, I don't feel like bothering with all that effort (even though my PC is just sitting here idle for most of the day), just like I use Bloglines to get my feeds for me on the server, I'd like Orb to grab my podcasts for me as well. It only makes sense, no? Then they'd have to change their model from a "proxying" service to more of a "cacheing/streaming" service, but I think (just like Adam and Evan) that's where some massive opportunity is.Posted by Josh at April 20, 2005 09:35 AM | TrackBackIn fact, I'd say if Orb doesn't want to do it themselves, they should open up their back end with an API and let others do it instead. Imagine - Orb handles the proxying, menu, encoding, etc. and all you do is handle the UI and the data storage for whatever custom media content you want to serve up? Everything from Podcasts to training videos to quarterly shareholder conference call recordings, etc. All available to you where ever you are.