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- stuartjmoore, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6so... it's a web rss reader?
- vulgrin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Uh, I've been using Juice (formerly iPodder) since before iTunes supported podcasts... and then MediaMonkey to push to my ipod...
Podcasts != ITunes... - Jerkbot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4HD DVD sponsored a diggnation episode. Go Figure.
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 - mrspin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's not an RSS reader, it's an embeddable multimedia flash player that can now pull in RSS enclosures you can create a 'channel' of different podcasts (audio and video). It even transcodes the video to flash I think.
- Mattie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't use it for the RSS feature yet, but I do use SplashCast to show-off user-submitted videos/tutorials of scripts for my Counter Strike: Source scripting engine:
http://web.splashcast.net/go/so/3/p/BCAN1617YA
I'm becoming a big fan of SplashCast. They do keep changing the player, though, so it's hard to get a feel for what the final product will be. When you're providing this to your own community, it's a bit uncomfortable when you don't have control over how it changes underneath you. (One of the prices of "Web 2.0" perhaps.) - mikepictor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3What a useless blanket statement.
You have personally reviewed and assessed every podcast available online, and put them in context of their target market?
If not, you can't call them all garbage. Some are garbage, sure, others are extremely well produced, with outstanding production quality. - mrwhitethc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just like anything else new, content seems limited right now, but hopefully this will take off. I for one will be watching this one closely.
- positron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Would be cool as an Apollo app with "multi-channel." support.
- Red_Eye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It also hijacks the subscribers away from a podcaster feed. Moving revenue generating potential away from the podcaster and onto the third party (SplashCast).
How utterly RIAA of them. - KingMoses, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can't find media in half the podcasts I subscribe to. Useless.
- mrspin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting idea, but it's more about being about putting widgets on start pages / social network profiles etc methinks.
- Terminaltor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Same here,
What a shame for DIGG. and I thought we're "freeing" people so that they get freedom of expression my ass, the bending over for the sake of corporations has reached stratospheric levels in the US - mrspin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You can add any content you like, not just from the directory. RSS is your friend.
- nextyoyoma, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Sorry for serious comment abuse...I might get banned, but oh well...EVERYBODY DIGG THE NEW STORY IN THE UPCOMING ARTICLES...digg has removed the story with almost 16,000 diggs because it goes against the wishes of the MPAA. Don't let anyone get away with this!
- vulgrin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3But, does it play Doom?
- ttntyler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@mikepictor
Oh come on, name me one podcast that's "extremely well produced, with outstanding production quality". There are none. Podcasts are amateur user-created productions with very low quality values.
The people with real talent are making money in broadcast television/radio - zubaida, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Looks cool... Create a revision3 channel maybe
- FrostyITRadio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Podcasts are different from internet radio in the simple way that a podcast you can download and listen whenever you want to it, as opposed to Internet Radio, which is a live stream.
RSS feeds is what really helped the concept of podcasting, and the iPod/iTunes helped too by being a mass marketed tool and being a directory for podcasts. There are MANY different ways to subscribe to a feed (as shown in others' posts) as well as many ways to listen to them, but the iPod is what brought it to people's eyes.
Not saying it's helped much, independent podcasters get crap for listeners, and all people hear about now are the huge corporations getting into podcasting. It's helping the popularity, but not helping out the indy podcaster that does their show for the love of it.
And, not trying to plug, but just saying that I am an indy podcaster. Our show is about 2 years old, when podcasting had it's "birth" (which is disputable) 3 years ago.
Also, to answer the original question, podcasters didn't have rules, which made it fun, but the RIAA is trying to put a stop to that. Otherwise it's on the net, so the MPAA can bite my ass. - ttntyler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1
- popothebright, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0So how is this different from Internet-radio and the new laws that are prohibitively expensive for Internet-based broadcasts?
- zubaida, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Are tou sure?
- zubaida, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Io think it does more than that
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1iTunes is garbage and I'm no fan of iPods, but many podcasts are super cool. I thankfully found web sites for my favourite podcasts so I deleted iTunes.
I don't know why "podcasting" is such a big deal all of a sudden. We've been able to record audio to WAV files since the DOS days. The concept only became popular when someone linked the concept with the trendy hardware du jour.
BTW, how is this story spam? It's about disassociating podcasts from Apple stuff. Isn't that your point?
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