Angus Logan

MCMS/SPS/.NET/SQL/Microsoft Australia

CNET: VoIP calls become iPod radio broadcasts

Wow it (podcasts) must be mainstream if CNet are reporting on it.

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 A growing number of people are sharing their iPod digital music using freely available software and Skype, a free Internet phone service.

The enthusiasts are borrowing heavily from another personal broadcasting phenomenon called podcasting, in which digital recordings are posted on a Web site for download to Apple Computer's popular iPod digital music players. "Skypecasters," as they call themselves, use Skype's peer-to-peer telephone network to distribute recordings over the Internet directly to each other for free.

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Comments

anguslogan said:

How about BBC News? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4371555.stm

It took Firefox for me to "get" RSS (Feedreeders just don't work for me) but I confess I still haven't got podcasting. (Hell, I don't even own an iPod! *heretic!*).

I suppose some kind of video-casting is next, but I don't wanna see your ugly face Gus! :)
# March 31, 2005 9:10 PM

anguslogan said:

Now thats just harsh.

I'll video blog sometime... and i'll do it naked!
# March 31, 2005 9:12 PM

anguslogan said:

Till then - how about with Kylie? ;)
# March 31, 2005 9:23 PM

anguslogan said:

Sure when we are back stage i'll video her (and her dancers :) )
# March 31, 2005 9:24 PM