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Jake applied the latest update to his PSP last night and asked me what "RSS Channels" were, which gave me the opportunity to walk him through subscribing to podcasts. I have to say, I thought this was a pretty cool thing.
Pictured here is a view of his PSP subscribed to podcast.bieberlabs.com, which come to think of it, needs an update itself sometime.
Tagged with: podcasting, psp, rss
Yesterday the 0.51 version of CastBlaster was released. I really like this software a lot. It makes podcasting so much easier. The user interface, once you get use to it, is very natural and simple to use. It takes care of the whole process, from creation to description, to publication via FTP of your MP3 to your servers. The sound quality on the resulting MP3’s are excellent. If you’re looking to start a podcast, you should definitely pull down the trial of this software and give it a try. The trial is free and allows you to record for 10 minutes. To purchase the product it costs $50, of which its worth every penny. Registration for the beta carries over to 1.0, obviously.
Keith was asking me what I was using for my setup now, so I thought I would recap it for him. Consider this a Pay It Forward for the help I received from the Roadhouse Podcast.
Tagged with: podcasting
The latest Gillmor Gang podcast talks about a concept called “User Driven Innovation” using Google and other vendors who have opened up their API’s as an example of this concept. The main subject of the podcast is disruption, of which this is just a part.
User Driven Innovation is the opening of service API’s to allow users to create applications based on a conglomeration of different service providers. You might remember reading something about this in articles on this site, including the ones here and here.
I have to say, I like the term “User Driven Innovation” much better than “Application Level Reuse”. Whatever you call it, it was validating for me to hear this on the way home last night.
Tagged with: google, innovation, soa
I just spent some time looking around Yahoo’s new podcast directory. Its pretty cool. Not only can you search for keywords in episode descriptions, but the site also supports tagging, so you can find related podcasts based on tagged keywords that you click on, a really nice addition to the site.
I’m still playing around with it and clicking around the tag-o-sphere, but it looks like a nice and easy way to navigate around the podcasts available. This service seems to have the best of all worlds right now. Tagging, Ajax enablement, and high ease of use. Check it out if you get a chance. I think I just found my new directory.
Tagged with: podcasting
