2008 Woodie Awards
Website of the Week
Seeqpod.com
Ben Roffee
Issue date: 3/25/08 Section: Features
What started as an attempt to organize data at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is now becoming one of the Internets fastest growing media resources currently available. Connecting users to every bit of playable media on the Internet is the primary function of Seeqpod, which has quickly developed a name for itself in the realm of online multimedia, music in particular. Users can compile playlists of playable media that can be shared with others and even embedded into social networking websites and the like.
Seeqpod claims on its website that it "was built with the social networking mobile generation in mind, and we provide users with an array of easy to use tools to playlist, share, embed, and purchase results, as well as iPhone and iPod Touch compatibility."
Seeqpod, the offspring of founders Kasian Franks, Raf Podowski, and Shekhar Lodha, is modeled after a system used by genomic biologists to sort through a library of staggeringly complex body of data. Looking to simplify the process of filtering through the information, an algorithm was developed, an algorithim that would eventually become the foundation for Seeqpod.
According to the Seeqpod website, "We have created a totally unique algorithm that finds the hidden relationships between playable topics, not unlike the way our minds make relevant associations between subjects of interest to us. Our technology mines the deepest crevices of the Web, returning useful, precise results."
While the concept itself may be simple, Seeqpod has applied its innovative search methodology to compile one of the most comprehensive indexes of web-based playable media on the World Wide Web. Seeqpod is constantly expanding as it combs the Internet with crawlers retrieving new links to media all the time. This massive index is then put to use when users search specific media, which Seeqpod allows users to play in the website. This has become particularly useful resource for users looking for music online.
Because Seeqpod does not actually host any media, simply linking users to existent media, Seeqpod is fairly well protected, much like most other search engines. In a subset of Internet groups that has been plagued with litigation, the legality of Seeqpod's service remains unhindered, a fact that holds promise for Internet music's latest addition.
Seeqpod claims on its website that it "was built with the social networking mobile generation in mind, and we provide users with an array of easy to use tools to playlist, share, embed, and purchase results, as well as iPhone and iPod Touch compatibility."
Seeqpod, the offspring of founders Kasian Franks, Raf Podowski, and Shekhar Lodha, is modeled after a system used by genomic biologists to sort through a library of staggeringly complex body of data. Looking to simplify the process of filtering through the information, an algorithm was developed, an algorithim that would eventually become the foundation for Seeqpod.
According to the Seeqpod website, "We have created a totally unique algorithm that finds the hidden relationships between playable topics, not unlike the way our minds make relevant associations between subjects of interest to us. Our technology mines the deepest crevices of the Web, returning useful, precise results."
While the concept itself may be simple, Seeqpod has applied its innovative search methodology to compile one of the most comprehensive indexes of web-based playable media on the World Wide Web. Seeqpod is constantly expanding as it combs the Internet with crawlers retrieving new links to media all the time. This massive index is then put to use when users search specific media, which Seeqpod allows users to play in the website. This has become particularly useful resource for users looking for music online.
Because Seeqpod does not actually host any media, simply linking users to existent media, Seeqpod is fairly well protected, much like most other search engines. In a subset of Internet groups that has been plagued with litigation, the legality of Seeqpod's service remains unhindered, a fact that holds promise for Internet music's latest addition.
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