Tue 11 Jul 2006
Podshow Plus – Walmart of the Information Superhighway
Posted by Curtis C under Technology
[3] Comments
While I was sleeping… Podshow + was launched. Then Adam Curry podcast about the feed hijacking controversy that ensued after its subsequent launch. Well naturally, I became curious to see what this was all about. After all, there has been some speculation as to what effect this will have on the pod-O-sphere.
I have recently had the misfortune of becoming up close and personal with a TOS (The Verizon Incident) agreement and so I started to read the fine print before I signed up for Podshow Plus. I have come to have second thoughts and am waiting to see how things pan out instead of signing in but not transfering my podcast to Podshow as Disciples with Microphones News suggested.
Not saying that Podshow is evil as would be a stance of conspiracy theorists when evaluating new companies that grow quickly to a monolithic size, but parallels can be drawn with phenomenon such as Wal-Mart and even Itunes taking a major monopolic presence in the market place. Results of such a huge influence has potentially detrimental attributes in conjunction with its inherent benefits to consumers such as Web Metrics Guru posits.
On the lighter side of critisizm comes this thought from Nicks Notes: “Too many features. Too complicated. Too much hard work. Not evil. But no fun.”
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July 12th, 2006 at 8:33 pm
I’m jumping into podshow with the Benzoid Report. But, the Ham Radio Podclass will stay where it is. Podshow has some bugs, but, I think it will become something very cool!
Plus, free bandwidth!!
-Mike
aka Benzoid
July 12th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
It is beta after all, I noticed quite a bit of slow down just after I blogged this… Hope your happy with it, I’m not as bold. Got to test the temperature before diving into the deepend. Keep us updated, Mike. Much appreciated.
July 13th, 2006 at 1:53 am
Curtis,
All seems well with the benzoid report other then the old shows. They don’t seem to work. They show up. Just won’t play. The new shows seem to be working well.
-Mike
benzoidreport.podshow.com
Feed: feeds.feedburner.com/benzoid