Dave Winer, who created the RSS standard on which podcasting is based, has introduced a new site, Tech.NewsJunk.com, that’s basically a news aggregator presented in river-of-news format.
Winer explains:
“I created the site because I wasn’t getting enough news about products. It’s that simple. I’m interested in the other stuff too, the finance, trends, parties, puppets — [...]
Reinvented Software has updated Feeder, an RSS editor for creating news feeds, podcasts and appcasts.
Version 1.5 includes:
an updated user interface for Mac OS X Leopard
support for thumbnails for video podcasts with the Media RSS extension
password-less SFTP
improvements for tagging MP4 video files, item editing and Sparkle appcasts.
For podcasters, Feeder includes full support for the iTunes RSS [...]
CES: Digital video recorder purveyor TiVo Inc. has announced that its subscribers will soon be able to select Internet video (i.e. podcasts!) for playback on televisions, expanding the digital recording service’s capabilities beyond TV offerings.
The new feature, announced Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show, will let users apply their “Season Pass” recording capabilities to [...]
Geek News Central’s Todd Cochrane, a long-time podcaster and the author of a book on podcasting, has taken a look at the state of podcast sites and podcast feeds and found widespread quality problems.
“The amount of garbage sites out there astounded me,” said Cochrane.
Cochrane looked at the podcast feeds and sites of podcasts nominated for [...]
Apple has appears to be quietly introducing an RSS reader for the iPhone at reader.mac.com.
If you visit the site with a standard Web browser, though, you get a warning message:
Change Firefox’s user agent to something like “Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A542a Safari/419.3″ - and this [...]
Feed-based search service Feedster has announced a “Web 2.0″ style makeover for its site.
On first look, this appears to mean that they made the site slow and ugly. Here’s their take on the changes, though:
To start with the obvious, the site looks completely different. When comparing the old with the new, it’s quite apparent that [...]
FeedBurner has introduced Headline Animator, an application that displays the latest headlines from Feedburner users’ blogs, podcasts and RSS feeds for Facebook users worldwide.
Facebook is a social utility that offers a way for people to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. Facebook is the sixth-most trafficked website in the United States.
Headline [...]
TechCrunch is reporting that Google is buying RSS feed management company Feedburner for about $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years.
“The information we have is that the deal is now under a binding term sheet and will close in 2-3 [...]
Commoncraft has published a short video introduction to RSS and its benefits:
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RSS is a key element in blogging, podcasting and video podcasting.
Added to Podcast software index: Alligator lets PSP users check and download the newest podcast content using iTunes and RSS feeds.
Alligator is RSS aggregation software for video and audio podcasting on the Sony PSP. Alligator also enables playback of many digital video and audio file types on the PSP, including MP3/MOV/MP4/WMA/WMV.
With Alligator for PSP beta [...]