It’s been a long road.  Back in January of 2007, David Stafford and I came up with the idea of writing a media search engine.  We thought it’d take maybe a year.

We actually had something in a little more than a year, but it wasn’t very interesting.  It worked, but nobody would have been very interested in it if we had released it to the world.

By then we had grown to four people.  We stuck with it, improved our crawler and indexing technology, and released two or three other incarnations to very limited audiences.  Those attempts, too, were less than successful, but they gave us a lot of valuable information about what people like (and don’t like), and how users want to view online video.

It’s been a long road, and sometimes a bit discouraging, but we’re finally able to present an early version of our new product, Podly.TV.

Take it for a test drive.  Browse the channels.  If you don’t see anything you like, do a search and create your own channels.  It’s totally free.  Anybody can sign up and create a personal channel list.  We’re adding new videos constantly, and new video sources on a regular basis.