Limewire, makers of a file-sharing client, is launching a podcast directory, Limecast. Billing itself as “the Web’s open podcast directory and archive” only has about a hundred podcasts at the moment.
The platform for the directory, however, is intriguing. It is still in the process of being built, and is being created online as a collaborative [...]
Rob Greenlee, Microsoft Zune podcast producer, has passed along information about the new Zune podcast directory:
“Podcast feed URL’s can now be submitted to the Zune digital media entertainment platform through the new Zune.net web-based podcast directory. This new podcast directory has over 12,000 podcast feeds online now and also accepts podcast reviews to be added [...]
Australian podcast company The Podcast Network crashed over the weekend as a hard drive failure and lack of redundancy, taking its podcasts offline and destroying show archives.
According to The Podcast Network, “On Saturday Dec 20, the hard drive on TPN’s server suddenly died. We are in the process of restoring and re-building all of our [...]
blubrry’s Todd Cochrane announced today that his company was removing more than a hundred podcasts from its service and banning sites because of problems with “podspam”:
This morning I instructed our CIO to have all shows that were using a RSS Feed generation service hosted by trafficgeyser.net and mypodfeeds.com to be terminated here at Blubrry.com
From [...]
PodShow has officially announced that it has changed its name to Mevio. Along with this announcement, the company announced updates to its site.
The name change has been greeted with skepticism by many podcasters, and there’s already a “Mevio” entry in the Urban Dictionary.:
The act of renaming a company / business, thinking that the new name [...]
AmigoFish is a site that is sort of like a psychic friend that helps you find podcasts you’ll like.
To use it, you sign up for an account, and then rate some shows. Once you’ve rated shows that you like, you can get recommendations for more shows that you’ll like, based on what people with [...]
RawVoice announced on Tuesday the launch of PodcastFAQ.com, a site that offers, in their words, current and prospective podcasters “comprehensive insight into the field.”
The new site includes history, technology, industry trends and a portal to several online communities and directories. The site also offers a glossary of podcast terminology, support and instruction on how to [...]
The Guardian reports that the BBC is introducing music podcasts, featuring highlights from their radio programming and short music clips in “top 40″ style format.
Starting Saturday, November 17, the offerings will include Folk & Acoustic with Mike Harding from Radio 2, Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone from 6 Music and the Asian Network Chart. 1Xtra has [...]
Zune Podcast Programming Manager Rob Greenlee sends word that podcasters will be able to add their podcast to Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace podcast directory starting on November 13th.
We will be launching our Zune Marketplace Podcast Directory with approximately 1,000 podcast feeds shortly. The reason we are doing this is to seed the catalog with a [...]
UK podcast directory Podcast Nation has announced that it will be expanding its community by offering a new media enthusiasts’ social network, run on the Ning API, at http://podcastnation.ning.com.
Podcast Nation Editor-in-Chief Mark Crook said, “Podcast Nation is a great way for both finding and promoting podcasts, and by developing our community at Ning, which has [...]