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June 08, 2005

What Will Microsoft Call Podcasting?

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Posted by Alex Williams

A thread at the Yahoo! podcasting group last week posed a question to explore:
What will Microsoft call podcasting?

Blogcasting?
Microcasting?

Will they accept the term podcasting even if it is so associated with Apple? Seems hard to believe that they would.

Podcasting is now pretty much accepted. It caught. It also fit with something cool, the iPod, a minimalist little white box, that people treat as if it is magic.

So, what do you think Microsoft will call podcasting? Why?

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1. Tim Germer on June 8, 2005 12:19 PM writes...

From their Channel 9 thingy they are calling it "Buzzcasting"; which is probably 100x worse than blogcasting. They'll call it MediaCasting; oh no, maybe MyCasting; wait they just got rid of the "My" convention right!? meh.

The funny thing is, there are people right now in Redmond, sitting around a table debating what to "name" podcasting. What they should be worried about is when people say the following, "Let me just GOOGLE it". That's what they should be concentrating on.

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