Social Network and Audio BloggingThere's Just So Much to DO!

I haven't mentioned it before on this blog, but we're getting so close to being public that I figure, Now It Can Be Told. I could be wrong, but no one reads this blog anyway, so I just want to talk about it a little.

For the past four or five months, since around early March or April, my friend Josh Bates and I have been working on an online podcasting management program called DropCaster. Go ahead - click the link - it'll just take you to our login page where you can sign up for the Beta (and I hope you do, as it's getting more fun every day.)

Currently, we're in an Alpha One stage, which basically means, "We think it's cool enough to show our closest friends and family, but we're certain no one else will get it - yet."

Josh Bates is one killer geek, let me tell ya. He came up with the idea because he wanted to learn a new programming language and platform called Ruby on Rails. I was into thinking about and strategizing about it, so he gets to be Chief Technology Officer and I got to be Marketing & Business Development, but mostly, doing a web-based tech company is just like playing a giant role-playing game, as I articulated in "Diary of a 'Net Whore," (which isn't linked on the web, but you can find it in my book.

The whole point of DropCaster is to allow people who want to feed podcasts to have a place to do it, while helping people who want to listen to a bunch of cool stuff to be able to find and organize it all in one place.

The whole exercise has actually been a joy - yes, we have a revenue model, no, we haven't made any money, yes everyone is working for free - and thanks to Base Camp, I actually have a fairly accurate record of everything we've done and everyone we've met with since the project started, which is handy since I tend to lose track without something in the computer keeping me honest and on-track.

We're going into an Alpha Two on July the 10th, (if we actually finish the massive checklist) and I'll be posting things here and there about it as we go.