30th September 2007, 09:49 am
According to the top of the its page, Yahoo Podcasts (http://podcasts.yahoo.com/) is shutting down October 31. Yahoo “apologizes deeply”, but it’s still going.
I’m baffled. Yahoo Podcasts was nice. It had a lot of content. It worked. Why is it being shut down? Just as the new iPods have been released, new DRM-free music stores are becoming available on Amazon (to spur the interest in portable music and thus other portable audio content), why is it being shut down? Yahoo has one property that Google doesn’t have, why is it being shut down?
Oh, well. Perhaps we’ll hear, perhaps not. In the meantime, to find podcasts of interest I recommend Podcast Alley and PodcastPickle (and its podcast metasearch, Podcast Inspector. If you’re more interested in searching podcast transcriptions than browsing podcasts, I recommend Podzinger, which is now known as EveryZing (and which searches audio and video).
27th September 2007, 08:58 pm
I am spending a lot of time with the Amazon ECS service — it’s the good twin, I’ve decided, and the Amazon search engine on the Web site is the evil twin. (Kidding. The frustrating twin, perhaps.) While I was going through the documentation and doing experiments on the site I noticed a couple of things of interest.
First: Jeff Bezos has reviews on the site. Not many, but some. Apparently he hates The 13th Warrior and loves milk. He prefers very expensive cheese straws, very expensive binoculars, and Cory Doctorow.
If you’re not into Jeff Bezos, you might want to check out Amazon’s new video review features. Yup, Amazon is now inviting customers to post video reviews of products. You can browse around looking for the reviews, or you can try searching inurl:videopreplay site:amazon.com on Google to see the half-dozen it has indexed.
The videos varied a lot. I liked Aaron Wilson spinning around on his Heelies. Other videos I looked at covered cell phones, cameras, and watches. One video actually showed a musician handmaking her CD labeling and packing, with the CD for sale at Amazon. (You can watch the packaging getting made and listen to the 4th track on the CD.) Maybe I can find some vacuum cleaner reviews…
24th September 2007, 08:53 pm
Andrea wants to have a WordPress Upgrade Party. What a nice idea.
LexisNexis launches new guide to domain name law.
Social networking and bookmarking for doctors: PeerClip.
New blog on investing: http://www.investmentcapitalist.com/. There’s an ad here of a guy’s head popping out of a wad of money. For some reason it is COMPLETELY creeping me out.
NY Times launches new blog devoted to TV Industry: TV Decoder.
Medical marketing laws by state.
