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What is Podcasting ? Where I can download iPodder for Pocket PC ? Where I can download iPodder for Microsoft Smartphone ? October 29, 2004 [General] | By Edward J. R. We are a technology tabloid dedicated mainly to windows Mobile powered cell phones. However some important things are coming up, that yet (!) are not directly related to Windows Mobile, that we have to mention.  (on picture above: Adam Curry, the inventor of Podcasting, is taking a photo of his wife, Patricia Paay) One of such things is Podcasting, that is second, after blogging (i.e. web blogs), revolution of the Internet. What is Podcasting ? Shortly speaking Podcasting is RSS 2.0 with enclosures - i.e. with links to multimedia files (mainly MP3). Generally speaking however Podcasting is 2 things:
http://www.ipodder.org/directory/4/ipodderSoftware. List of channels with Podcasts can be found here and the latest 100 Podcasts published on the Internet is available here. Overview about Podcasting from the best encyclopedia ever - Wikipedia - is here. * * * * * Podcasting with Windows Mobile devices At software link above, when you click on "Pocket PC", it is described how to synch with Pocket PC but the same applies to MS Smartphone - however it synchronizes multimedia files from Podcasting only to main memory what is a huge limitation - so d eventually you can just copy files through activesync. There is no software that does that for Pocket PC or MS Smartphone automatically but such software or extension of ActiveSync would be needed!!! Developers? Microsoft? do you hear? There is iPodder.NET project ongoing, but unfortunately it is only for desktop Windows computers. Since nowadays many Pocket PC devices have built-in Wi-Fi having iPodder for Pocket PC would be great!!! We invite hereby all developers to think about creating software for Podcasting !!! It could be: iPodder -type software for regular listening and download of Podcasts but it could also be a software that records voice, mixes it with music, posts multimedia files to server and updates XML file with the RSS feed with enclosures. This is very new business opportunity so we have pioneer times nowadays! * * * * * The legend of Podcasting We wouldn't deserve the name "tabloid" if we wouldn't mention where this whole Podcasting comes from! Actually Podcasting is nothing new and it has been existing in dormant way for years as a part of RSS standard for content syndication (RSS = list of updated pages of given website in a specific XML format). RSS initially was introduced by Dave Winer from Scripting News and later on developed by a worldwide Internet communities. Many people refuse to recognize Dave Winer as an inventor of RSS so he is now a grumpy old man and angry at everybody. The bottom line is, that nothing would happen with this "multimedia enclosures in RSS" if Adam Curry wouldn't start popularizing the idea of Podcasting. Adam Curry is a US citizen living in EU, a former employee of MTV (he was a video diskjockey at MTV) and later on he was also active in various Internet related enterprises in EU. Adam Curry became famous when he registered Internet domain "mtv.com" and didn't want to give it back to MTV - eventually MTV filed lawsuit against him and regained that domain. Around the time when he finished his career at MTV he married provincial Dutch singer - Patricia Paay (see photo above), and now he is happily married to a rich woman and he doesn't need to work for a living - his rich wife gives him enough money to play around "with the Internets". He doesn't have a day job and doesn't need to have one. To kill time Adam Curry flies his helicopter for fun, and publishes, also for fun (not for money), almost daily Podcasts at his Daily Source Code website. Adam Curry is the one, who came up with the idea of Podcasting. He convinced above mentioned Dave Winer to cooperate and Adam Curry himself had written, with help of AppleScript, the first version of iPodder - an RSS reader with multimedia enclosures, that regularly downloads new Podcasts as they come up. Later on, several professional programmers took the idea over and produced a version of iPodder for several other platforms. Where this "Podcasting" name comes from? Does it mean that it works only in Apple iPod? No, it works on all devices that support MP3 playback - including Windows Mobile devices like Pocket PC and Microsoft Smartphone that have Windows Media Player that is built-in and plays MP3 without problems. The name "Podcasting" comes indeed from Apple iPod - it was supposed to be "a food for your iPod" and is combination of words: iPod + broadcasting. Just remember: you don't need iPod, also Windows Mobile devices, despite the lack of iPodder for Windows Mobile software yet, are excellent devices for playback of Podcasts!  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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