The WordPress MU Administrator needs to install the plugin as follows:

• Click menu Site Admin > Options
• Make sure option Plugins is checked, if not, check the option and click Update Options
• Download the Odiogo Listen Button WordPress Plugin
• Upload directory odiogo_listen_button to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory via FTP

The instructions to be provided for bloggers to to activate Odiogo on their blogs are:

1. Sign-up free at http://www.odiogo.com/sign_up.php
2. Login to your WordPress admin account
3. Click menu Plugins and click Activate for Odiogo Listen Button
4. Click Settings > Odiogo Listen Button
5. Enter your Odiogo Feed ID specified in your Odiogo Activation Email and click Save
6. Click Design > Widgets and click Add for Odiogo Subscribe Button
7. Click Save Changes

WBIR-TV from the Gannett group ran this story on Odiogo’s deployment on the WBIRTV.com site.
Enjoy!

This short ‘how-to’ video shows how easy it is to deploy the Odiogo widget on a TypePad blog.
Stay tuned as more videos are on the way!

Give your TypePad blog voice … and legs! from Odiogo on Vimeo.

mojoPortal, is an open source web site framework and content management system written in C# that runs under ASP.NET on Windows or under Mono on Linux or Mac OS X.

Its latest release includes a tight integration with Odiogo: mojo users just need to sign-up to the Odiogo service and insert their Odiogo feed ID in the settings page:

Once both fields are set, voilà! the Listen Button shows under each post’s title.

Good news for iPhone and iPod Touch owners: The January 2008 update (aka firmware 1.1.3) includes support for the lyrics option. With this feature, Odiogo users can visualize on their device the text content of an article or blog post of an Odiogo feed. This is helpful for those who want to quickly browse through a story before reading it.

More on this feature in a previous post.

We usually keep these for our testimonials page… but could not resist blogging about it: the February ‘08 edition of Stuff Magazine (UK) lists us as Essential Webware, qualifying Odiogo as a genius website…

We’re honored - thanks!

Good news for the tens of thousands of BlogEngine.NET users - Mads Kristensen sent us the following note:

I’ve been using your service for the past several weeks now and I’m very impressed with the quality. So, I’ve created an extension for all BlogEngine.NET users that let’s them use your service very easily.

We did not have the time yet to deploy and test this extension, but you are invited to give it a try. More details on Mads’blog.

Thanks Mads!

For those who are not familiar with BlogEngine.NET:

BlogEngine.NET is a full featured blogging platform that is a breeze to setup, customize, and use. A small download and easy to follow instructions get you up and running in minutes. Pick one of our elegant default themes or make your own theme. Extend the functionality by creating your own custom control or add some of the many built into the system. More.

By default, our system checks updates in your blog’s content every couple of hours. Using XML-RPC allows to notify us that you have updated your blog (new or modified post). Invoking the XML-RPC service will allow a faster availability of the audio files of your site.

Here are the instructions to define the Odiogo XML-RPC server in installed versions of WordPress.

1. Login to your WordPress admin account
2. Click menu Options > Writing
3. Under Update Service add URL http://rpc.odiogo.com/ping/ in the text box. Make sure to separate multiple service URLs with line breaks.
   (Note: If don’t see the text box, click menu Options > Privacy and enable Blog visibility)
4. Click Update Options

Good news for iPhone and iPod touch owners: Our popular Listen Button is now supported on the Safari browser of both the iPhone and all flavors of iPod Touch. There are no settings to make: The Environment Recognizes automatically the device and adapts the behavior of the Listen Button.

When clicked, the Listen Button will open QuickTime to play the audio version of the article/post.

Happy listening!

This post details the setting to perform in iTunes in order to properly handle the download of the audio files generated by Odiogo for your feed.
By default, iTunes downloads only the latest audio file of a feed. To ensure all new audio posts are downloaded when synchronizing the iPod with the PC/Mac, you need to remind your users to make the following settings in iTunes:

1. Select menu Edit > Preferences
2. In the Podcasts tab, on the questions When new episodes are available, select Download all
3. Click OK