Friday, May 27, 2005
"Podcasters Tune In to Apple"
After Steve Jobs announced on May 22 that the next version of Apple's music software and store iTunes -- due within 60 days -- would feature support for podcasting, the nascent community of Internet-broadcast show creators was all atwitter.
...But with several podcasting directories already in existence, and high-profile podcast-related companies such as Odeo nearing their launch, Apple's entry could also roil some first-movers -- many fear that Apple will become the de facto place where people discover podcasts, much like iTunes has become for legal music online. "When I first saw it, I thought, wow, that's really surprising, and potentially bad for us," says Evan Williams, co-founder of soon-to-launch Odeo.com, a service that will help people create and find podcasts.
Read the full article at: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_052605hellweg.asp?trk=top
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...But with several podcasting directories already in existence, and high-profile podcast-related companies such as Odeo nearing their launch, Apple's entry could also roil some first-movers -- many fear that Apple will become the de facto place where people discover podcasts, much like iTunes has become for legal music online. "When I first saw it, I thought, wow, that's really surprising, and potentially bad for us," says Evan Williams, co-founder of soon-to-launch Odeo.com, a service that will help people create and find podcasts.
Read the full article at: http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/05/wo/wo_052605hellweg.asp?trk=top
(Free registration required)
# posted by Lynn Wegley @ 6:52 PM 
