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October 11, 2005
Yahoo! gets podcasts
What with putting a proposal to Fairfax that they take up the Computer Help broadcast that the ABC dropped as a podcast - they're very interested, and we'll keep you informed - Bleeding Edge has been checking out the podcast scene. We've glad we've got a 60GB iPod, because there's much more good stuff around than there used to be.
And the Yahoo! podcast directory beta seems to us to be much better than Apple's, or anyone else's for that matter. It makes tracking down and loading podcasts absurdly simple.
And that's only the beginning. Yahoo! plans to add "social features" - ratings and recommendations for instance - and it will be adding podcasts to other search results. It also makes features like high-speed replay available for Web listeners. [In the world of the time-poor, you need all the help you can get.]
Geoff Ralston, Yahoo's chief product officer, told Podtech.net that the new service reflects the spirit of Web 2.0: "I think that it’s something that is great and new about podcasting. It is about taking this audio content and injecting community into it. It’s injecting community with the people who are listening to podcasts, injecting community to those who are creating those podcasts, and then allowing them to publish it and get it out in a real time basis to those people.
"That’s been a core part of how we’ve thought about creating a site around podcasts. So the community can go in and take a look at the podcast and rate them, review them, and create a tag space around them. The result is that the community on a ongoing basis is talking about podcasts on Yahoo, and telling the rest of the community what’s cool, what’s new, what’s happening, what is a great podcast, and what you should be listening to."
Posted by cw at October 11, 2005 08:46 AM
Comments
Come on Charles, own up! The first podcast you put on that iPod was G'day World, wasn't it?
;-)
Molly
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Posted by: Phillip Molly Malone at October 11, 2005 10:22 AM
It does look like a very good service with some real thought gone into it. That being said there has not been much thought in my view of the new blog search they have also released. It simply just integrates into the existing http://news.search.yahoo.com/ search. It displays blog results in the right hand column of the search and thats about it. It is a shame that they did not create a complete stand alone blog search such as Google's.
Posted by: Stephen at October 11, 2005 04:03 PM
The sooner YAHOO dies the better. A dated business that is always playing catch up. Not IF but WHEN.
Posted by: Stuart at October 22, 2005 10:41 PM