Update: anyone want to take a guess at the valuation?
Ev Williams' Obvious Corp, which bought Ev's Odeo property back from investors in October '06, is now looking to sell the podcasting site. The site is self-sustaining he says - AdSense pays the bills - but the company wants to focus on Twitter and doesn't want to see Odeo die of neglect.
The stats look pretty healthy for a smallish web-app: 684,951 unique visitors, 3,012,921 pageviews and 76,106 logins in the past 30 days. Those numbers should be enough to assure potential buyers that Odeo is by no means failing, and the site and the platform should be able to find a buyer:
It seems likely Odeo is worth more to someone else than it is to us at this point, so we're looking for a new home for it. We've been having some conversations with potential buyers, and this is our attempt to put the word out more widely in the most expeditious way (and without involving investment bankers and the like). If we don't get any attractive offers, we'll continue to run it.