podscope

Podscope is indexing and allowing you to search the actual content of podcasts. Some voice-recognition voodoo, I reckon. Neat.

Posted by Ev. at 4/21/2005 | 1 comments | links to this post

Opening the kimono

Over there at iPodlounge there is a pretty giant screenshot of the Odeo homepage as we see it from behind the login screen. I was actually shocked when I saw it all out there and naked for everybody to see. Most of the functionality cant be seen from the page in the screenshot, but as soon as we get through the bug list the invites are going OUT! I cant wait.

Posted by Noah at 4/05/2005 | 11 comments | links to this post

How many podcast listeners are there already?

Pew Internet project reports:

More than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29% of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing. That amounts to more than 6 million adults who have tried this new feature that allows internet "broadcasts" to be downloaded onto their portable listening device.

Wow, that's great! Although, I thought that number sounded kinda big, and Om Malik questioned it, as well. This story explains a bit more:

"Our question to the survey respondents on this was very broad. We asked if they had ever downloaded a podcast or radio Internet program," [Pew research director Mary Madden] says. In other words, the survey also netted affirmatives from people who may have listened to an NPR program on the radio, for example, and then gone to the NPR site to download it.

Not only that, I wonder how many people who have just listened to streaming radio on the Internet would say they "downloaded" it. (And are they wrong?)

Podcasting is definitely growing, but we let's not get ahead of ourselves (or reality).

Posted by Ev. at 4/04/2005 | 2 comments | links to this post