CrowdAbout.us- Pimp Your Podcast

Let’s talk. Commenters worldwide have had to leave their question, compliments, complaints, incendiary flaming, and every other variant of personal opinion to text based interactions. So the phrase ‘let’s talk’ on blogs, podcasts, and websites were left to the keyboard. CrowdAbout.us considers the old text to your hearts content old skool. So they’ve went ahead and made it better. CrowdAbout’s main focus is the podcasting crowd and their podcasting crew, the listeners. CrowdAbout let’s you add audio and video commenting to your podcasts (you can still type out text too). There’s lot of other goodies too. Adding your current podcast RSS feed will automatically add all your shows from the feed. You or your listeners can add contextual show notes –links, pics, advice- in the conversational player. Get embeddable players, conversation feeds and plenty of other hot widgets. Just sign up and get interactive.

“Crowdabout makes podcasts interactive and conversational. While listening or viewing in the online Conversational Player, you can talk back and add your own thoughts to those of crowds of other people listening to the same shows. Share ideas, correct mistakes, debate the finer points, offer advice, shout out to homeys, leave some love...whatever your motivation, crowdabout makes the converstation possible.”

CrowdAbout is a great idea. It brings more interaction to podcasting and videocasting. It’ll promote interactivity and community rather than simple passive listening.

What’s CrowdAbout’s business model? Will they expand the concept to other sites like blogs and websites? Will users want to make use of audio and video comments?