you love podcasts, especially on the go, but feel limited by the need to download those audio-files to your computer just to sync them to your mobile device? or, if you’ve got an iPhone, have you ever tried to download a podcast which is >10mbytes over the air (don’t bother, Apple won’t let you)?
enter Yasssu, [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the SXSW podcast & videocast is among the hottest content you can put on your media-player at this time of the year! subscribe now, content will trickle in over time!
like last year, (almost) all the talks & slides from the Future of Web Apps have been published by Carson Systems. I’ve setup an RSS-feed for those who don’t want to go through the hassle of downloading every single file. enjoy!
leading music-recommendation service Pandora introduced some community-related features earlier this week (check their official blog for the full scope). however, listener-profiles (including listings of tracks which received most thumbs-ups & -downs) and a very basic search for listeners, artists & stations can’t really keep up with advanced community-features offered by last.fm. f.e., Pandora lacks last.fm’s [...]
social-news site digg.com announced a major upgrade earlier today. besides some changes in user-interface and frontpage-composition, biggest news is the integration of online-video and podcasts in the top-level navigation. podcasts can be dugg either by series or episode, playback for both audio- & video works straight from inside digg. popular footage from social-video sites like [...]
Office 2.0, the conference on web-technology and office software taking place in San Francisco on october 11th & 12th, is accompanied by Office 2.0 Podcast Jam – a meta-blog collecting live-blogging around the event, podcasts published by speakers, scheduled chats with conference hosts and presenters as well as audio-content produced by non-attendees – a great [...]
just subscribed to the Daily Search Cast (thanks to a recent post by Jason Calacanis). during his daily 30 minutes, Search-Engine-Watch-founder Danny Sullivan covers all the news on search engines and search marketing. yesterdays episode discusses the alpha-launch of ‘human-powered’ search engine ChaCha (I just gave it a try but was quite disappointed), Yahoo! Answers [...]
Evan Williams compared about 30 podcasting-sites by their average weekly Alexa ranking. besides well-known flaws in Alexa’s ranking and Williams probably being biased (he’s CEO of second-ranked Odeo.com), the results are quite interesting. the top-ten according to Alexa include hosting service libsyn (1), portals like Odeo (2) or Podomatic (3), content-networks like Podshow (5) [...]
BlogTalkRadio is a service giving podcasters the ability to do live call-in radioshows without the hastle of connecting streaming-servers (i.e. icecast) with VOIP-software like Skype. though this basically doesn’t fit the asynchronous nature of podcasting, there is definitely demand for such an offering among podcasters. BlogTalkRadio (currently in Beta) will allow up to five people [...]
as reported, Dave Winer has startet a free and independent podcast-directory at podcasting.opml.org. everybody is welcome to contribute branches to the directory by collecting podcast-feeds in opml-files (the outline processor markup language allows to describe feed-lists in a standardized way – Dave Winer’s OPML-Editor is a great Windows/Mac-tool to write opml). for details, subscribe to [...]
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