Fresh Podcasts > Windows Media Player 11 Misses the Podcasting Boat

http://www.newmediasense.com [New Media Sense] One of the biggest kerfuffles in podcasting right now is about the lack of podcasting support in Windows Media Player 11. Some (like Geek News Central) were pretty scathing regarding the lack of podcast support after a year of iTunes support - saying that “their inaction will slow the growth of podcasting in a big way.” Others (like notably Robert Scoble) think that the lack of podcasting will slow WMP 11’s growth instead.

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Geek News Central Revealing Technical News and useful linkshttp://www.geeknewscentral.com [Geek News Central Revealing Technical News and useful links] Microsoft's lack of action will slow Podcasting... : They had a opportunity with Windows Media Player 11 to get in the game, I can guarantee that their inaction will slow the growth of podcasting in a big way. But it makes sense Podcasting does not make them any money, if I were a betting man I bet MTV had something to say in the process and likely killed any podcasting integration as it would have made the URGE network a lesser value.

[edublogs] Podcast: Blogs and Podcasts, the learner is the... : It seems to be the one thing teachers see makes a different in teaching kids, but find difficult to get to grips with, even though teaching itself has so many other things that are far more complicated than connecting a computer to a projector. And the technology can frighten the teachers, and we’re talking about confident individuals, and I think one of the points to make in the next nine minutes is that teachers themselves perhaps need to be more confident individuals themselves. 

http://spinfluencer.blogspot.com [Spinfluencer] Building a Business Case for Podcasting: Given that newspapers are eliminating their stock tables and shrinking their page width to save money, networks and studios are starting to distribute their shows online and all other the media formats seems to be migrating to the web - and these are businesses whose profitablity hinges on their ability to distribute content effectively and effeciently - it seems counter intuitive that corporate communicators and PR agencies would try to buck the trend by favoring print collateral and email over what Doc Searls refers to as the live media. But as someone in the trenches, I’m here to tell you, the overwhelming majority of corporate communications executives and PR practitioners still lack the ability to publish and syndicate pages, images and rich-media on their web sites without the support of IT personnel, who keep them bound and gagged, lest they compromise network security, or g-d forbid, outsource their infrastructure.

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