Podcast + Transport

April 19, 2005

Before you head starts spinning this is not about people podasting on buses or in their car. Although this does happen an awful lot with people wanting to try something different to brake up their monotonous journey to work. They are actually podcasting from podbus and podlot. Although I have talked about podlot before podbus has arrived on the scene and wants to be podhost for people’s podcasts.

Podbus is a new service allowing people to sign-up and receive 300MB of storage and an automated RSS feed (much like what dircaster achieves) for $4 a month. This basically means you can upload 15 shows with a length of 20 minutes. For an extra $2 you can host a website with php enabled.

I’ll recap on podlots service to be fair - They offer 150MB with unlimited bandwidth for $5 month, or if you are a podcast addict you can get 1000MB of storage costing $15 a month, this allows you to host up to 15 domains and have unlimited e-mail addresses. They also offer php support if you want to create a website with added features like cgi, perl and python.

My advice would be to sign up for the basic package and host your site/blog on blogsome for free and link to the podcasts from there.

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Under Development

A number of podcast sites that could have massive potential are

Podkissed: Allow easy management of podcasts to mobile.

Podsafe: Registered late last year, will maybe have a database of usable content for podcasts.

PodcastAds: Dates all the way back to November. Is it now too late for this idea as podshow is aiming to push the same idea?

Podbat: All round tool, management system for podcasts, show notes and a podcatcher.

Podglo: Sounds interesting, but not fully sure what it will offer.

Odeo: Currently in beta, most people very keen to use this site.

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