On the TechVancouver stage ×1
First seen on the TechVancouver stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Daniel ↗
In their words
podcasting can be quite lonely so what I mean by that so when you listen to radio you might be in the car with your friends a TV and watching sports you might be others but for me podcast is me with my headphones on listening to a podcast
podcasting is decentralized and it's really cool so I don't want to just throw a buzzword for the sake of throwing a buzzword
if you use a different player than me it's hard for you to recommend to me that you really like a podcast so what I wanted to build with echo was this social layer no matter what podcast player you use
Around the web ×1
Quick answers
What does Daniel Mathews build?
Taddy, which offers comic hosting and distribution plus a podcast API indexing about 4 million podcasts and 200 million episodes, and Inkverse, an indie webtoons reader. Both are built on an open comic spec called SSS, modelled on RSS.
What happened to Echo?
The podcast app he demoed in 2017 grew into Podyssey, a discovery and recommendation service for podcasts he co-founded with Melody Ma and took through the IDEABOOST accelerator at CFC Media Lab. He records Podyssey as acquired.
What did he argue at TechVancouver?
That podcast listening is lonely and podcasting is decentralised, so no single company can add a social layer. Echo was meant to sit between players: import your subscriptions, see what friends hear, and echo an episode out with context.