Tag

Apple

Frank Barnako “Podcasters your 15 minutes of Fame is up”

What kind of crack is this guy Frank Barnako smoking, this guy just does not get it. He think just because the majority of Podcast in the iTunes top 100 list are commercial that podcasting for the small guy is finished. A large part of the reason that the top 100 podcast are commercial is because Apple is pushing commercial

How to make Enhanced Podcast

Phillip Torrone over at Make Magazine has put together a great tutorial on how to create enhanced podcast. I love the idea and the functionality but can't see doing them myself. I usually don't get done recording till midnight most show nights as it is now. [Make]

Apple reading Blogs after the Fact are they that out of touch?

You just don't know how irritated this makes me, it seems Apple talked to a couple of Bloggers about podcasting. They discussed "tags, podcasts, RSS, XML, spec-writing, validators, and how best to give, watch, and respond to feedback on the web". Hello Apple we have been asking to talk to you ever since you announced your big plans, and you

Apple’s Refusal to talk to community causing problems!

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

Apple is Caching Podcast

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

Somehow iTunes is not only downloading Audio Files!

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

More Podcasters Speaking out on the iTunes Implementation

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