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Jfurrier / Podtech.net:
PodTech Exclusive: Yahoo! Launches Podcasting with Yahoo! Podcasts — Download to MP3: Exclusive Podcast Announcement - Yahoo Launches Podcasting — The PodCast: — YAHOO! LAUNCHES PODCASTING. Yahoo! Podcasts, A New Beta Service, Lets Consumers Find and Listen to New Audio Programs
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Associated Press:
Yahoo tunes into podcasting craze — Internet giant to offer tools for searching popular audio programs — SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to tune into the latest craze in digital media, Yahoo Inc. is introducing tools for finding, organizing and rating "podcasts" — the audio programs designed …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Listen to the Internet With Yahoo! Podcasts — I'm finally able to talk about Yahoo! Podcasts, now in public beta. This new source for online audio programming uses Yahoo! Search to make it easier than ever to find and subscribe to audio content and listen wherever and whenever you want.
Rafat / PaidContent.org:
PodTech has the "exclusive PodTech Yahoo release" (transcript/streadmed audio) with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo's chief product officer, who promises "the best place on the web to find, discover, and consume podcasts to really find the podcast that you're interested in." He says the new site will help podcasts go mass market.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Launches Major Podcasting Service — Yahoo just launched a comprehensive podcasting search, directory and listening service called Yahoo Podcasts (URL will be working in the next couple of hours). John Furrier at Podtech.net nailed this story and has posted an exclusive podcast with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo's Chief Product Officer.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
podcasts.yahoo.com — Major site launch: http://podcasts.yahoo.com/. — I got an advance look at the site and had a chance to sit down with the team on Sept 21 in Sunnyvale, CA. We talked about formats, protocols, how to work with the community at a content and technical level, and linking into the community directory.
Kareem Mayan / Kareem Mayan's Weblog:
Web 2.0: Conversation with Five Teenagers — Safa Rashtchy, managing director at Piper Jaffray, moderated a panel with five Bay-Area teenagers. all are 17 and in highschool, except for Sasha, who is 18 and is a freshman at Berkeley. — This was one of the more interesting panels …
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
REACTION TO GOOGLE READER — Whew! I was afraid that I was going to get bashed when I didn't like the Google Reader, that there had to be something wrong with me that I didn't like it. Turns out, I'm not the only one. Obviously, its not a huge cross section, but the comments …
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Ask Jeeves Blog:
Deep Thoughts at Web 2.0 — In July, we looked into the Bloglines data in a post called "Which Feeds Matter?" (which actually began life as "What Feeds Matter?" until Daniel left a comment correcting our grammar). Our definition of a feed that mattered, out of the millions of blogs …
Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Japan's Music Industry Wants Fee on Sales of Latest Digital Players — TOKYO - In the United States, recording labels want a bigger slice of Apple's success in digital music by seeking higher prices on downloaded songs. Japan's music industry has a different idea: putting a fee on iPods.
Johnnie L. Roberts / Newsweek:
Selling Songs for a Song — Record labels want a bigger cut of digital music profits. — Oct. 17, 2005 issue - The music industry is filled with creative types, and many seem to be wearing suits these days. Consider the latest idea from the business suite at Warner Music Group …
