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iPod + iTunes....now with PODCASTING
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| starsearcher |
This is awesome...just brilliant...what an amazing idea...hope this spreads to many radio stations/shows
LOVE IT...APPLE! :crazy: :disbelief :disbelief
http://www.apple.com/podcasting/ |
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| VERTiG0 |
| When you're driving within 100 feet of my car, tune into 90.5fm. You'll be treated to pure aural sex. |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
When you're driving within 100 feet of my car, tune into 90.5fm. You'll be treated to pure aural sex. |
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: I like the sound of that |
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| TrickDaddE |
| quote: | Originally posted by starsearcher
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: I like the sound of that |
Not if its on the Receiving end I hope? LOL |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by TrickDaddE
Not if its on the Receiving end I hope? LOL |
Dude, aural. You know, audio. Ears. Come on now. |
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| Fir3start3r |
Seems Apple may have jumped the gun...
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RSS inventor slams Apple's podcast approach
By Scott Fulton
July 1, 2005 - 20:45 EST
Cupertino (CA) - With the release of iTunes 4.9, Apple included the first edition of a long-anticipated XML document type definition (DTD) for RSS 2.0, that will enable access to podcasts. Apple aims to build podcast support directly into both the software and iPod, but leaders in the RSS community, including the standard's own creator, are taking Apple to task for developing an ill-advised DTD without seeking input and guidance from the community.
So-called "media RSS" implementations would enable podcasts to be categorized by any syndication service, the way existing RSS tags today enable text pages--including Tom's Hardware Guide pages--to be listed on many syndication services today, including Moreover. Last February, Yahoo released an updated media RSS specification that, while receiving minor critiques, has been generally embraced for its openness and adaptability.
But last Tuesday, responding to Apple's iTunes 4.9 release on one of his many blogs, Dave Winer, the creator of the original RSS standard and its most vocal supporter, chastised Apple for explicitly using the name of its technology, "itunes," within the DTD namespace. With this and other measures that appear, at least on the surface, to be part of an unsupported effort to make the iTunes DTD proprietary, and a podcast's inclusion in the iTunes catalog exclusive to Apple.
Suddenly, the company indirectly responsible for naming one of today's hottest technologies, is being chastised not only for being slow to adopt, but also appearing to hide an ulterior motive.
By toughing out the development of the iTunes DTD on its own, stated Tristan Louis, one of RSS' earliest proponents and editor of TNL.net, "Apple has made a number of mistakes that show that they don't truly understand a) how XML works, b) how RSS works, and c) how the RSS community and community process works. Now, this is not the first time that Apple is using a standard to extend its own agenda. However, considering the level of support that RSS has been getting from other vendors--most recently, Microsoft--it is surprising to see that Apple would want to corner itself into its own small space." Microsoft recently announced its plans to support RSS within Longhorn, the next generation of Windows; and its appeal for community support and input has lately received some praise.
Extending a standard is not, in and of itself, a bad idea. The "X" in "XML" does continue to stand for "Extensible." Conceivably, Apple could have made an open proposition for an extension to media RSS that supports the iTunes catalog, stated Louis, and RSS developers could have worked with them to polish a standard prior to iTunes 4.9's release. But by redefining the meaning of at least two principal RSS tags, by Winer's count, Apple may be, in Louis' opinion, trying too hard to re-invent the wheel just so the final product can be theirs and theirs alone. The situation is reminiscent, said Louis, of the browser wars of the 1990s "where basically you could develop your own tags that could work on your own browser, but then there was no guarantee that the community would support those."
As Winer writes on Reallysimplesyndication.com, "I think it's kind of a bad idea to use a trademark in the name of a namespace. I think Apple may regret doing this. Also their competitors, already objecting to the use of "pod" in the name of the category, may further object to supporting information with a trademark of a competitor as its name. Come on Apple, we can do better."
"Does Apple want to see Microsoft [or] Real creating their own media RSS format?" asked Louis. "Are we going to have to support multiple types of media RSS formats depending on the vendors, or should there be a consolidated format that is supported by all vendors? What we really need at this point is a central group similar to what we have with W3C and HTML, to help us [and] all the vendors come to an agreement as to what's going to be used and what's not going to be used."
On TNL.net, Louis advocates the creation of a common namespace, blending the elements proposed by Yahoo, including the more generic "media:" identifier (instead of "itunes:"), with features implied in Yahoo's DTD. Implementing a joint standard, writes Louis, "would...represent a show of good faith from both companies and an understanding that cooperation is good for everyone."
Spokespersons for Apple Computer were not available for comment at press time. As things stand today, an IBM processor is due to drive the next Microsoft game console--now that the two companies have settled most of their differences--an Intel processor will drive the next Macintosh, Microsoft is being lauded for its openness, the Justice Dept. is praising Microsoft for its cooperation in a report released last month, AMD is playing the innocent victim rather than the intrepid aggressor, and Apple has come under scrutiny for possibly commandeering an open standard for its own proprietary purposes. The unwieldy and ironic Musical Chairs dance between the power players in this industry, continues.
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