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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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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 …

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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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.

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.

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 …

Matt Cutts Interview — How and when did you get into search? — I got into search in 1999. I was working on my Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (go Tarheels!). The computer science department there makes you take two outside classes, so I took classes …

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 …

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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Apple's New MP3 Player Drives Down Market Prices — Hit by the successful launching of Apple's iPod nano, the prices of local MP3 players have fallen by up to 30 percent over the last two weeks. — The price drop is most apparent in the flash-memory models with storage capacities of from1 gigabyte to 4 gigabytes.
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