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October 10, 2005

Yahoo! Podcasting Features

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Posted by Alex Williams

More on Yahoo! Podcast:

Looks like Yahoo! is listening. Nice features that make the community the agent for strength. Staff picks, recommendations and how to explore on your own. This is the kind of thing that I expect is the new standard for community sites. A striking trend is emerging with the search players that you see in Yahoo! Podcast.. It's not that people are being directed away from the search engine but keeping you in the Yahoo! garden to find and subscribe to RSS feeds..

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Just look at what occurs when you susbcribe to a feed from the Yahoo! Podcast page. You are directed to subscribe to Yahoo! Music or Apple iTunes through a feed they call .pcast.

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And when you listen directly to the podcast, you get a pop up window for their flash player.

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Again, the effort is in keeping you at Yahoo!, not sending you to another place.

Any features you find striking in this first version of Yahoo! Podcast?

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1. John on October 10, 2005 10:14 AM writes...

It is easy to save the XML file that downloads when subscribing to a feed at Yahoo Podcast, open it in NotePad or some other text editor, copy the URL for the RSS feed and paste it into your feed aggregator (I really like SearchFox).

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