Comments on: ZapZap does social podcast directories right

By: ZapZap What? | Stock Trading 101

ZapZap What? | Stock Trading 101 — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:14:51 +0000

[...] Expo, and what a better way to send the love than by going back to their review of Zapzap.com in June of last year. Just to get your engines rolling, the post was titled, “ZapZap does social podcast [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:26:11 +0000

This post might be due for an update. Looks like Zap Zap is no longer around. If you hit the site you will see that the domain name has expired.

By: BrandBrains » links for 2006-06-28

BrandBrains » links for 2006-06-28 — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:19:55 +0000

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By: yongfook

yongfook — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 01:11:37 +0000

…apzap?

By: kaiju

kaiju — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:11:18 +0000

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By: Notacreature

Notacreature — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 12:30:28 +0000

Congratulations once again yf. You are certainly making a name for yourself. Continued good luck.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 05:27:24 +0000

Yongfook - You missed my point: I have yet to understand the market for _any_ social podcast networks, regardless of the language. Best of luck.

JamesM - Please send me an email at skeptic_at_ dead2o _.com - I’d love to hear how things go and do a post about it!!!

By: yongfook

yongfook — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:45:04 +0000

JoJo > naturally the number of podcasts offered will increase as time goes on. I think most podcast directories make the adding of podcasts so simple that it makes “number of podcasts” such an arbitrary means of comparison. There is a balance, too - whilst having 20′000+ podcast channels might sound great, that’s a hell of a lot of variety and you really then need the means to sift through all that in an efficient manner - and I don’t think any of us have really nailed that yet. We’re working on it though.

JamesM > you might as well say that *any* site is clone-able. Unless you have really deep technology (Riya, for example) anyone can clone anyone. That’s not the point - it’s the *execution*. I know you are speaking hypothetically to make a point, but in response - if an $850 team has the necessary savvy to design, implement and market something with production values similar to or in excess of ZapZap, then business is business and we will gracefully accept defeat and retire to lick our wounds. My guess is though, they don’t. And when I look around at the other podcast directories in both Japan and The West, it’s a similar story.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:32:28 +0000

@JoJo - the huge number of podcasts is the big issue, of course. I guess there are two approaches that can be taken: focus on searching (in which case you are dead right, you have to index everything) or focus on the ’social’, and rely on people bringing the best stuff into the system. I don’t know about zapzap, but http://collectik.net/ certainly takes the latter approach (as, of course, do other non-podcast tools like del.icio.us).

Searching is great when you know what you want to find, but social aggregation is better at helping you find stuff you didn’t even know you would be interested by!

By: JamesM

JamesM — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 03:00:56 +0000

Ok. That’s great.

I’m building the same site as zapzap and many many other podcast directories. I dont have a business plan. I’m doing it just because I can. My monthly budget is $35. Site development cost $850(Outsourced to china).

ZapZap seem to be a pretty high production quality.. How much did you guys actually spent and how much money are you planning to make? Or think you’ll make?

I think the market is pretty limited. I’ll jump with joy If I make $50 per month to cover the monthly expenses via google ads. Plus, that’ll make my site PROFITABLE($15 in profit)!!

All these podcast directories a pretty easy to clone… within a week you can get your own directories and just leech all the content from zapzap and many other sites(pluggd).

My goal is to outlast. $35 per month budget.. If I don’t eat breakfast for a week per month, I think I’ll last along time.

By: JoJo

JoJo — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:47:49 +0000

Pretty nice UI, but I was disappointed with the limited selection of podcasts (only 4,000 when I check).

This is becoming a problem as the number of podcasts increases. Only Pluggd and Odeo seem to consistently have a large collection of podcasts. The other players have really fallen behind.

How often would you go to Amazon if on a few occasions you couldn’t find a book? Same for Google and web pages? Same for eBay and ‘everything’?

By: hugh

hugh — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:28:40 +0000

actually, http://collectik.net has been quietly doing offering a similar service for a couple of months, and is a japan-australia-canada production.

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ZapZapソーシャルポッドキャスト・ディレクトリー

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ZapZapソーシャルポッドキャスト・ディレクトリー — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:24:59 +0000

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By: yongfook

yongfook — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:09:48 +0000

Skeptic > thanks for your comments. In terms of huge opportunity, there is basically nothing in the Japanese market like ZapZap, so we are in quite a nice position in that sense. Remember, the whole world isn’t browsing the web in English.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:40:33 +0000

The title of this post is a joke, right? Does this mean there are companies doing social podcast directories wrong?? And these guys are swooping in because of the huge opportunity??? I give em 5 months to change business models, then about 2 more months to a redesign/gamma phase, and then, the layoffs.

By: Blast:space

Blast:space — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:53:53 +0000

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