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We have been waiting for a week for some sort of word from Apple on a RSS tag clarification. Now 1000's of RSS feeds across the world are being reported invalid because Apple refuses to make any comments to the community or fix their mistake in their specifications document. Another thing that blows my mind is that their own published
Apparently Apple is caching Podcast and this could turn out to be a development that has come concerns. First I have noticed that for some reason shows were only partially downloading which I really could not figure out why and now this explains it their likely is a problem with their caching software and it is not downloading the entire
Apparently quite by mistake Hugo Schotman has discovered that iTunes 4.9 not only downloads your audio files but somehow pulled down a PDF. I have a question out to him asking how they are doing this and the mechanics behind it. Imagine having photos or a small video to attach along with your podcast. We know that they are embedding
First of all, those of you getting our show via a regular podcatcher application keep using it. There are a bunch of reasons why and I will point you at several. [PodNova] [Dave] At least Microsoft offered their name spaces up in creative commons. Apple did not and those of us running iTunes name spaces now are buying into their
I have been sitting here today reading the torrent of mail in the podcaster mailing list, and reading commentary on weblogs across the planet and have realized a couple of things. Apple does not understand RSS, and because they did not reach out to the community their are going to be a lot of non technical podcasters scratching their heads
I just checked my latest Libsyn Stats and downloads are through the roof. I am getting reports that sites like Dawn and Drew are down, servers have melted all over the podcasting sphere. Thus far this site which is hosted on a GoDaddy server has kept up and we have seen over 300,000 individual hits to this site alone today.
First of all I welcome Apple to the Podcast scene, second thing is it is obvious that they talked to very few people in the podcasting community in the way they have implemented things. First of all if you look at the shows that are on the main page a large percentage of these are commercial radio station shows. They