Yahoo podcast service
p2p news / p2pnet:- Yahoo has come up with another punter-tempting gimmick. And it’s also done a deal to promote one of Apple’s applications.
Its new podcast service has, “everything you need to get started enjoying podcasts, including any software you might need,” it says.
“Podcasts works with the software you already have. So what are you waiting for!”
There are, of course, a number of free podcast services already online but Yahoo is the first of the large search companies to offer one.
After extolling the virtues of podcasting, “If you want to listen to a podcast on your MP3 player, it’s easy,” it says. “Just download to your computer, or subscribe,” and “use your music software (Yahoo! Music Engine or Apple iTunes) to transfer it to your MP3 player”.
Yahoo also offers a choice of podcasts it likes, such as one from Shanghai in Communist China teaching people how to learn Chinese; and, The Sound of Young America.
In the latter, keyed to the upper right pic, “Guests Robert Weide and Bruce Bridgeman. Bruce Bridgeman is a professor at UC Santa Cruz, and recently published a paper on legenday Santa Cruz tourist attraction The Mystery Spot,” says the blurb. “Robert Weide is the executive producer of the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
The company doesn’t say when (or if) it will feature podcasts tied directly to advertising.
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October 11th, 2005 at 3:45 am
The company doesn’t say when (or if) it will feature podcasts tied directly to advertising.
Of course not, but i’m sure within 12 months, you’ll have to listen to ads before you can get the music itself. Probably on an “ad per track” basis.