Yahoo! Inc. is working on a development tool to make it easier for people to produce and publish podcasts, Joe Hayashi, senior director of product management, told TechWeb Friday.

At the first Portable Media Expo & Podcasting Conference 2005 in Ontario, Calif., Hayashi declined to provide specifics on the project, but said the challenges podcast publishers face are based on not understanding the technology behind the publishing tools.

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