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January 5, 2006

Creative offers podcast directory and application

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Posted by Nicole Simon

Hardware manufacturer Creative offers a podcast directory named Zencast as well as an application (beta) called ZENcast Organizer

ZENcast Organizer, specially designed by Creative Technology, seamlessly integrates podcasts and video blogs with the Creative ZEN player or a PC. Available today as a public beta version for free download for the award winning ZEN VISION and the latest ZEN VISION:M users. The ZENcast Organizer will enable users to enjoy easy downloads of all channels from www.zencast.com.
The user interfaces looks a lot like iTunes and the website has only a very basic feature set - but still a bit more to offer than iTunes.

The design seems very simple and non stylish compared to the look of the hardware products. But obviously the company sees the need to compete with iTunes through having easy accessible (free) audio and video content to fill the players with.

Looking at the basic features of the website and seeing how long they will have to go from here I was wondering, why the company did not try to work with one of the existing directories out there. But instead took the road to offer yet another directory and make podcasters again go through the process of educating the new directory of their needs and wants.


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