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- iaskedTGT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When did Apple come up with the term "Podcast"?
- BlakeHandler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0According to the Wikipedia -- it was last year that the word Podcast came into "being"
- Tobey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I thought Apple had nothing to do with the word "podcast".
- Lacero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1A big PWNAGE!11!!1!1! goes out to the folks in Redmond.
- johnxstone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0You mean last year... When Jobs called it the waynes world of radio and wanted to have nothing to do with it...
No... Apple had nothing to do with it. - digitaltrav, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Podcast name .. good for Apple .. but not their term.
- hardcoredj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Apple followed the trend this time, they did not create it. M$ was wise to do the same.
- Sazime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The revolution will be wrought on the users terms, not the corporations. Viva revolution!
- krisse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Podcast RSS Feed
- I don't think that it is actually because of the catchyness of the word, more like to extinguish between text feeds and media feeds.
I didn't know that Apple has nothing to do with the term.. - But people sure associate it with the iPod.
*Apple wins, I digg it - krisse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pff, - Should have said (is a subset of)..
Where is our edit button?
Where is the preview button? - boneill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nothing to do with Apple, and this is old news. MS has used the term "podcast" since April 2005? Maybe earlier ... Why is this news? Do we care what words MS uses?
- guardian653, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0err.. where are all the buttons saying 'podcast'?
- allenu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is old, plus the blogger gets it wrong. An RSS Feed is not a Podcast. Plus, I've seen a clip of billg refer to "podcasts" months ago in an interview.
- salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Adam Curry came up with the term podcast.
It's a shame it caught on so fast, 'blogcast' would have been more appropriate, although, it helps to be reminded to keep your 'casts in a format the dated ipod can use ;) - RedStarr, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0A big PWNAGE!11!!1!1! goes out to the folks in Redmond.
- fli7e, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0...Except a podcast is typically something you listen to.
Unless I'm horribly, horribly, horribly misinformed about the definition of podcast, I can state that an RSS feed used on someones blog or in an article is most definitely not a podcast, it is an RSS feed. - amigiac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0BlakeHandler has it wrong, microshaft are adopting the name podcast for rss media feeds such as wmv files.
If you take a look around the MSDN site you will see RSS buttons everywhere unless it's a video feed where they use the POD button. - j_bellone, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I don't digg. It has nothing to do with Apple, or the iPod, and Jobs even downplayed it originally before realizing its was going to be the future of amatuer broadcasting. Not to mention the only thing driving the iPod is the looks, not the hardware, because that's *****.
- Trepan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3an RSS Feed is still an RSS feed, and an RSS aggregator is still an RSS aggregator. And a podcast is still a podcast.. poster is talking about three different things and calling it the same thing.
- joeuttaro, on 06/06/2008, -0/+0Yeah, this story is going in 3 or 4 different directions. No digg.
- spartan777, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Whew! now that M$ has officially recognized the podcast, i can actually call it that now.
- Subway, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Microsoft atually used to call it blogcast and not RSS feed:
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So how do you create a "podcast" without implicitly acknowledging the ubiquity of the product from one of your company's competitors?
Why, you "blogcast," of course.
That slightly awkward name, apparently derived from the words weblog and broadcast, is being used by several Microsoft employees to offer their own audio programs over the Internet. But they're not the only ones uneasy with the "podcast" word.
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Fredi - Phaedrus73, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I have to agree with pretty much everyone here. I never could figure out why Microsoft felt that Podcast and RSS feed could be used interchanably. I have a great deal of RSS Feeds that have nothing to do with Podcasts.
- zediker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1personaly, i think 'Podcast' and 'RSS feed' sounds dumb, but thats my opinion. I also dont understand why Microsoft wanted to call them RSS feeds when they had nothing to do with eachother. RSS delivers text, not audio files. While a Podcast is nothing more than just a recording with a fancy name. If I find the person who coined the word podcast, i might have to hurt him... Does anyone else not give a flying F about the ipods?
- whitesanjuro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i prefer the term syndicated audio feed because ipods are for populists...it would be the equivalent of calling roads "corollaways" because the corolla was the best selling car.
- talean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone here remember when they were called Streaming Video/Audio? I recall people using that technology for... 8 or 9 years now. Then someone decided to harness the power of streaming media to blather about their banal lives and suddenly it's some amazing new technology? Hardly. And yes, RSS != podcasting. RSS is to podcasting as automobiles is to drunk driving.
- SybotCB, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Technically it's never been called Streaming Video/Audio. That's something totally different.
- talean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
"Podcasting is distinct from other types of online media delivery because of its subscription model"
Hardly a distinction and certainly not "totally different". - kalos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Does anyone remember Shoutcast (www.shoutcast.com)? DigitallyImported has been using it for years, along with thousands of others, to create niche specific "stations". The addition of a subscription service isn't that new either, just to this particular venue, the portable set.
- TomGu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A podcast is not the same thing as streaming video or audio, since it typically isn't streaming. It is also more than just a sound or video file, because it makes use of an RSS feed to allow people to subscribe to it. While many podcasts allow the direct downloading of the audio files without using the RSS feed, the thing which makes it a podcast is that feed.
- Decimal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm going to vote that 'Podcast' be a shortened version of "portable broadcast".
- talean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think these technicalities are at the heart of the issue I'm speaking about. Some are streamed, some aren't. The point is, audio files have been available to download/stream/get-to-your-ears via the web for a decade now. Tacking on RSS to it isn't some feat worthy of being called a new technology. RSS or Atom could be applied to any content on the web that might change. Podcasting is just a buzzword and nothing more.
- Shalabi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How about WebCast?
- sedgemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Another pointless article. Podcast is not the same thing as RSS feed/aggregator.
- FRAGaLOT, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Since when did we need Microsoft to claim the moniker of something official? We don't need their blessing for names when they barely had anything to do with it's development. No dig.
- FRAGaLOT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Was ANYONE waiting for Microsoft to "finally" call this a "podcast"? Why does Microsoft care? Why should anyone care?
- Chango_Family, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pot.tv has been doing audio and video webcasts for years and one of the hosts even mentioned that they didnt change anything yet now people call their shows podcasts as if its some new invention even though putting mp3's and videos of shows online has been going on ever since broadband penetration gained momentum and its only the RSS feed that's really changed things with having the info come to you instead of you going to get it.
I also love the podgroupies who act as if putting an audio show online is a revolutionary idea instead of the distribution method.
By the way, what is the new definition of an online video program like Digital Life? Vidcast? - scbysnx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0well it could be switched to mp3cast but thats not dmca compliant now is it?
- scbysnx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and by the way all those against microsoft not using the term podcast.. would you have cottenelle call tissues kleenex aswell? .. just becuase its the popular term?
- databyss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hate the term podcast. It is evil.
A podcast is a downloadable file linked via an RSS file.
The latest RSS standards allow you to "embed" a multimedia file, be it audio, video, image, text or whatever else.
The new RSS aggregators have the ability to recognize these links and download the specified file.
That's a podcast. You don't "subscribe" to anything, as in the server doesn't put you on a list to send data to you. You're program, or you yourself, goes to the server and asks for the data.
It is never streaming, because you could never put a streaming file on your mp3 player.
The term podcast is the worst sort of language perversion that's happened in modern history. - kortiz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Apple's "Podcast."? when did apple come up with the word podcast..?
- magik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0umm... Podcast != RSS Feed
- neocitron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0mistake... Apple didn't create podcasting... however they did greatly help its development.
Podcast is not strictly limited to audio... the word is also appropriate for video. - nomechingues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yes adam curry came up with it its funny, you don't need an ipod to hear it and it is not a broadcast and yet the name is perfect.
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