The “google” of Podcasts- Pluggd

     Pluggd is a podcast directory, but what makes it special is its ‘HearHere’ technology, which makes it possible to search podcasts by concept, rather than keyword. I think that the technology involved is stunning because when listening to a podcast, you can select the search option and find the section which you’re interested in. I have [...]

The ways to develop Podcasts

  After doing some research on the industry of Podcast every week in this quarter, I think that there are three ways or directions to enhance the development of Podcasts in the future:
    1. Organizations should apply Podcasts into their websites to provide users customized content. For example, Standford use Podcast to let its students [...]

Podcast..on any phone?

    Podlinez is a free service that lets users listen to podcasts on their phone. Enter the RSS feed URL for a podcast in its website to get a phone number people can call to hear it, or browse our directory for a number to try. If your favorite podcast isn’t already in its directory, [...]

Social importance & markets

    In this week, I think that the guest speaker, Jason Preston, mentioned the two important points about social media. The first one was a person’s inherent desire to be social and a great market to advertise in.
    Applying these two elements to Podcasts, I think a great Podcast should include:

 Interesting content
 Good quality of recording
 Released [...]

Blog analysis- Mashable

    During this quarter, I have been reading the Mashable blog. Mashable, which was created by Pete Cashmore, is a social networking news blog. With allegedly over 5 million monthly pageviews, 166,000 per month revenue, it ranks 9th among the largest blogs on the Internet. Mashable regularly writes about MySpace, YouTube, Bebo, Facebook, and Xanga, [...]

Podcast analysis-Boing Boing TV

    During the podcasting in business class, I have been listening to Boing boing TV.
    Boing Boing TV is the webTV of cultural curiosities and interesting technologies. Much like the blog, BoingBoingTV, which is hosted by Xeni Jardin and BoingBoing co-creator, Mark Frauenfelder, while other BoingBoing contributors will also host segments, will focus on [...]

Seeking riches in niches

     This article, Podcast Advertising: Seeking riches in niches, from eMarketer provided a useful data about US Podcast Audience 2007-2012. In this article, it pointed out that the US podcasting industry continues to mature because the audience is increasing largely, and along with advertising spending growth to podcasts. It also estimated that there was a [...]

Feel overwhelming about social media?

 
 
    After Eric’s speech, I know podcast and blogs have much possiblity more than we see at present. Of course, I know almost every online development is helpful for improving our lives and that’s one of the reasons we are studying digital media. However, sometimes I just feel overwhelming about the amount of social media. [...]

The White House has Podcasts!

   
    It seems that the White house has already been setting up podcasts to spread the speech, remarks of President Bush and Press briefings of White house since 2001. Maybe it is not a news for Americans, but it is very new for me, as a citizen of other country. Now, I finally realize why [...]

Originality has no limits

   
    In this week course, I pretty enjoyed the speech of our guest speaker-Lee LeFever (CommonCraft). It is amazing and creative to use explanation as a career. When I got home at that night, I cannot wait to share this idea and website with my friends by posting on my blog of Taiwan. After few [...]