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So several months of hard work have gone into this new and exciting project, which was built from the ground up by Chris Goringe, Kristin McQuillin and me, with lots of great input, comments, suggestions & bug reports from many of you out there. Chris is a coder, a Brit living in Sydney, Australia; Kristen is designer and an American living in Tokyo, Japan; I’m a podcast junkie, an Anglo in Montreal. The three of us have never met in person, but we managed to get an (almost) finished product that’s pretty great if you ask me. There are still some bugs to work out, and some new features on the way, but in general we’re pretty darn happy about it.

And without further ado:

Meet Collectik.net

a website for organizing podcasts and online media. It’s like mixtapes for podcasts.

1. build a Collection of podcasts & online radio programs
2. mix a Playlist of episodes you want to hear
3. listen via iTunes, XML, or streaming m3u

Collectik.net has tons of great features that will help you manage, mix, listen to and share all the best audio (and video!) on the net.

• Search to find the stuff you want and
• Build custom Mixlists (for the gym, for your politics class, or for your hip hop-loving aunt)
• Make Friends to help you find great audio
• Tag podcasts and episodes to make them easier to find
• Use our Firefox plug-in to collect media files or feeds from anywhere on the net
• Put a “Collectik This!” button on your own podcast page, so others can easily collect your podcast
• Import and export OPML lists of RSS feeds
• Coming soon: Comment on episodes you loved (or hated)

Collectik.net is a free web tool for anyone to use and it’s also a community of podcast fans. It’s run by Chris Goringe, Kristen McQuillin, and Hugh McGuire, who are also founding members of LibriVox.org, the all-volunteer, all-public domain, audio literature podcast project.

Mix it up at Collectik: http://collectik.net

Feedback, questions, comments, and criticisms are all welcome: contact@collectik.net.

NOTE: Our Official Official launch happens when Chris gets back from vacation on May 1, but what the heck. Kristen couldn’t wait, and I couldn’t either!