I don't listen to music anymore. There's so much to track in the mobile/Web 2.0 world that my iPod touch plays more podcasts than music.
I just finished listening to This Week in Tech (TWiT) episode 134: Pave the Cow Paths. In there, they have a hefty discussion about mobile content generation and deployment including RSS, podcasts, blogs, twitter, and more. A major point (before they get into how people prefer a score of characters to a full blog post or podcast) involves iTunes' stranglehold on the podcast market.
Leo Laporte and friends discuss how there is no cohesive software, server, and device system to catch podcasts independent of the PC. They discuss how there is no good embedded payload delivery for things like twitter. Sure, you can put URLs in twitter and RSS but they don't get automatically downloaded when syncd up. Finally - there's no single mobile tool for generating and posting podcasts either.
I think they want a device with an open SDK, expandable storage, flexible Internet connectivity options, a microphone and speakers, Voice over IP support (preferably with recording,) and perhaps even a webcam.
Does that sound like a familiar device? All a Nokia N800 or N810 would need would be software for both catching and posting podcasts.
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In addition they seem to want a device that can download podcasts over the air. Certainly Internet Tablets can do that, as well as any Nokia phone running the Nokia S60 Podcasting application?
Are these guys fully up-to-date on what's going on in the world?
No, they're not. The twits are Windows-centric and the only "alternative" they know abut are Macs. They'll mention Linux every now and then, but they obviously neither understand nor care about Linux, and I doubt they've ever heard of Symbian.
Its funny, all the upgrades they wanted from twitter are already available in Jaiku.
If I only had an N800, I'd be using Video Center as a podcatcher.
I assume you could just fire up sound recorder and then send a sound file off to where ever and call it a podcast.
Podcasts in, podcasts out. Easy as cake and already here. Not 5 years in the future.
The funniest thing of all is that Leo has a N95 and has used and discussed it quite extensively in the past.
Unfortunately they have never heard of the Podcast client for S60.
But then on the other had they have also talked about Qik and doing live broadcasts with Robert Scoble. It depends on the panel though. I have found that Leo frequently "plays dumb" depending on who is on the panel to keep the conversation going.
But it was definitely a "beating the head on the desk" moment when everything that Dave Winer wanted in a "pod catcher/creator" was already existing in S60 and Maemo.
as much as i enjoy listening to leo and twit and macbreak weekly (my laptop is a macbook) leo is very apple centered and his show live, breath, and propogate apple products from the iphone on. i dont mind the bias - but aside a short brief mention when the n810 debuted - nothing on the tablets even though it is exactly what leo and his crew want from the iphone-
just my 2cents
I must be in the minority, I don't use an ipod or itunes at all, and download my podcasts through an RSS reader. Before I finally started using RSS, I'd download them manually from bookmarks... and they were called "internet radio" back then. I dislike the term podcasts, but that's how they caught on.
@gamer-geek you are not alone - iPod and iTunes value overrated seriously.
Would be nice if the N800 headphone jack had stereo output to listen to tunes and podcasts. Anyone else have only mono output from headset jack?
It's not just TWiT. Gearlog, Cranky Geeks, Maximum PC. I listen to podcasts from all of them, and no one really mentions the n800 or n810. A couple of words when the n810 was released to note it, then off on how nothing does what they want. Drives me up the wall.
@Anonymous: My N800's headphone jack outputs stereo just fine to my headphones. Check internettablettalk.com for possible causes or others with the same problem?
@anonymous
Are you sure you are pushing in your headphones all the way in?
@ gelatinous
Do you watch anything from podshow?
They beat you over the head with N810 advertising.
Cali Lewis from GeekBrief is an Apple superfan but she seems to love her N810 as well.
@Al Pavangkanan: No, sorry, I don't believe I do listen to anything from podshow. I definitely don't have time to WATCH. Luckily, no one's said anything about holing up in my cube with headphones yet. :P
it would seem that Dave Winer not only has heard of the N800, but owns one. see
this post on his site.
after listening to the TWiT in question, i was all set to send him an email listing the same features ThoughtFix discussed, but then i searched his website for any mention of the ITs. it seems he has a short memory...
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