Victoria BC, July 23, 2008 – DailySplice is proud to be the newest member of VIATeC, Vancouver Island’s conduit for connecting people, resources and knowledge in the technology sector. With the help and support of the VIATeC community, the company hopes to grow into one of Victoria’s notable up and coming new companies over the next year.

DailySplice was first established in September 2007 when the founders, won a local business plan competition hosted by the IDC worth $15,500. Since then, the company has been working around the clock to provide a better solution to podcast discovery and distribution. Over the year, the company has become good friends with other members of the VIATeC community. “We are now happy to be one of the VIATeC companies, we feel a little more real now and look forward to participating in all the fun and educational stuff we’ve been watching them do for the past year.”

Over the next year, DailySplice will be on the lookout for keen web development, online marketing, and sales talent to help bring their product to market. The company has completed its initial set of products and will be launching and releasing features over the next few months. The company looks forward to seeing its ideas get put into use, and hopes to find others to join the team and share in that excitement.

DailySplice’s mission is to modernize the concept of radio by creating customized stations that you can play online, subscribe to through email or RSS, or embed on your personal or corporate webpage. You can quickly find relevant content from a library of thousands of podcasts and then build a “Splice Station,” for personal routine or for a targeted audience. DailySplice is now available at dailysplice.com.

The VITP, now employing 1300 people, represents the greatest concentration of high-tech companies and workers on Vancouver Island. Many of the 28 current VITP tenants —a cluster of fuel cell, new media, wireless, life science, biotech, ocean technology and information communications technology companies—got their start at UVic, involve UVic graduates or employ UVic co-op students.

For more information visit http://company.dailysplice.com or contact Rian Bowden at rian@dailysplice.com or call +1250.885.5303.

###

…Episodes during the week consist of Rian and Lewis reviewing podcasts, interviewing podcasters, and reporting news pertaining to the Podcasting industry…

Read the full post at Edgy Reviews.

…though they don’t have any standard way to rate podcasts, they do have entertaining ratings that range from negative to positive…

Read the Full Post at KinseyConfidential.org.

Me and Krakaz over there on the DailySplice, check us out, add us to your list.

Watch the full episode at AskBlackie.com.

$1,500 Winner Announced for 2008 DailySplice Coding Challenge

Victoria BC, May 2, 2008 – DailySplice announced the winner of their first coding challenge today worth $1,500. The winner is UVic computer science student Dan Sanders. Dan is in his second year at UVic and took a keen interest in the challenge when it was posted in November. The prize was co-sponsored but the UVic Computer Science and Software Engineering departments as well as DailySplice.

The challenge tested a programmer’s ability to analyze sets of data and identify patterns. Entrants were given 20 sets of data containing information about train schedules. Sitting in various rows and on various train cars were a number of secret agents. Based analyses of past trends, the entrants were asked to write a program that predicted how many secret agents would be sitting in each car of upcoming trains, as well as other details about the agents.

Dan’s solution was rated based on four criteria: accuracy of patter recognition, usability/readability of outputs, efficiency of the algorithm, and the quality of code. “Dan’s solution picked out some fairly well hidden patterns in complicated sets of data, and we were pretty impressed.” Said DailySplice co-founder, Rian Bowden.

“I would like to thank DailySplice for posting this challenge. I learned a great deal about data visualization and combinatorial data analysis while working on it.” Dan said in an email. While there was only one winner, Rian pointed out that all the participants seemed to enjoy the challenge and there were a some great solutions.

DailySplice’s mission is to modernize the concept of radio by creating customized stations that you can play online and subscribe to through email. You can quickly find personalized content from a library of thousands of podcasts and then build a station, or “Splice,” that you can listen to on demand as a part of your personal routine. The service is available in Beta at http://dailysplice.com/.

For more information visit http://company.dailysplice.com or contact Rian Bowden at rian@dailysplice.com or call +1250.885.5303.

Rian said it started small and informal and is now growing every month. There were 24 folks there yesterday. Which means if a truck drove into that corner of the Old Spaghetti Factory, Victoria’s tech sector would be pretty much wiped out in one fell swoop!

Read the full article at MapleLeaf 2.0

Rian from DailySplice.com thinks it should be the other way round: iTunes to become social like MySpace!

Read the full article at Read/Write Web

Podcasts transform from stand-alone shows to customizable radio-like programs

Victoria BC, March 17, 2007 – DailySplice released its beta version of a web service that aims to change the way people think of podcasts. At DailySplice, a podcast is only a piece of a user-defined tailor-made program. The service has been functional since November 2007, open only to the personal contacts of the founders until today.

The features that are available in beta include a unique playlist creator that analyzes the podcasts in a user’s list of favorites and generates a daily show of a given length that the user can consume every day in their routine. It’s like a tailor-made radio program. “We think the key to monetizing podcasts is providing a predictable and reliable platform that can be incorporated into people’s daily routines.” Says the company’s CEO Rian Bowden, who has been creating customized morning “radio shows” for himself since he was 9 years old.

The company also released its own podcast today where the hosts discuss podcasts in their own daily “splice.” “We’re really big fans of podcasts and we’re trying to bring them to the mainstream, but the first step is to help people find great shows. Our own podcast will give a quick summary of podcasts we think are cool and we hope it will help others find the show they want to subscribe to.” Says the DailySplice CTO and co-host of the podcast, Lewis Sobotkiewicz.

The service also includes a podcast community section where users can connect with friends and discuss podcasts. DailySplice also uses a unique algorithm to rank podcasts based on a number of factors which include dynamic components that make recommendations more relevant to each visitor.

DailySplice’s mission is to modernize the concept of radio by creating customized radio-style programs that are delivered daily to your computer in an iPod or mobile phone ready format. You can quickly find personalized content from a library of thousands of podcasts and then build a program template, or “Splice,” that you can listen to on demand as a part of your personal routine. The service is mostly in an invite-only test phase, but its directory and search engine are open at dailysplice.com.

For more information visit company.dailysplice.com or contact Rian Bowden at rian@dailysplice.com or call +1250.885.5303.

Colin How, former CEO of PiXPO, joins DailySplice’s advisory board

Victoria BC, March 14, 2008 – DailySplice has attracted the attention of another well known local entrepreneur, who joined the company’s board of advisers. Colin How is a consultant, coach, executive, leader, strategist, entrepreneur, and human capital specialist.

Colin How comes at a perfect time for DailySplice, as the company is now entering its first round of angel financing. Colin is well known locally for being successful at raising capital for small startup tech companies. How has also been instrumental in growing a number of small companies, including ADC which he helped grow from 26 employees and just over $1M in revenue to 120 employees and over $16M in revenue.

DailySplice’s impressive board of advisers also includes:

• Bev McPhee: top organizational culture expert at IBM
• Walt Nicholson: marketing consultant
• Rob Bennet: founder and former CEO of Municipal Software
• Jon Kerr: co-founder of Genologics and TeamPages and current COO of TeamPages
• Aidan Henry: web 2.0 marketing consultant at TagZoom and blogger at Mapping the Web
• Mary-Lynn Bellamy-Willms: President at Suburbia Studios and FunctionFox

DailySplice’s mission is to modernize the concept of radio by creating customized radio-style programs that are delivered daily to your computer in an iPod or mobile phone ready format. You can quickly find personalized content from a library of thousands of podcasts and then build a program template, or “Splice,” that you can listen to on demand as a part of your personal routine. The service is mostly in an invite-only test phase, but part of the site is available to all users at http://dailysplice.com/.

For more information visit http://company.dailysplice.com or contact Rian Bowden at rian@dailysplice.com or call +1250.885.5303.

…start-ups that are paving the way in the Victoria pure-play Internet space include: DailySplice - Personalized, daily podcast radio…

Read the full article at: Mapping the Web