Digital Podcast News Alert - May 23, 2005
Two New Exciting Developments for Podcasters
Apple’s Jobs Announces iTunes Podcast Support
CARLSBAD, Calif.—Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs demonstrated a new version of iTunes here Sunday that adds a Podcast directory and one-click subscription.
Speaking at the D: All Things Digital conference, Jobs showed off the new version of iTunes, which will include a searchable directory of Podcasts. Apple plans to make it easy to find and subscribe to Podcasts via iTunes—it will take just a single click to subscribe to a Podcast once it has been located.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1818895,00.asp
Garageband.com Introducing New Podcasting Program
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that GarageBand.com is introducing a new service to allow every musician who uses GarageBand.com to become an instant podcaster. GarageBand.com new service called GarageBand Podcast Studio will let podcatchers to subscribe and automatically receive new songs from artists. Users who host playlists will be able to turn their playlist into a podcast. GarageBand estimates that this could add 40,000 new podcasts almost immediately. GarageBand.com PR announcement can be found at:
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20050523005409&ndmHsc=v2*A1114254000000*B1116889287000*DgroupByDate*J2*L1*N1000837*Zgarageband.com&newsLang=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view
