PodShow
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PodShow is a social networking website, podcast directory, podcast delivery network, and music store. The network acts as both an index for podcast listeners and as a tool for podcasters to publish their content, communicate with their listeners and legally access and play music within their shows.
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| URL | www.podshow.com |
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| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Podcasting |
| Owner | Podshow Inc. |
| Created by | Adam Curry, Ron Bloom |
| Launched | October 2004 |
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[edit] History
PodShow was founded on October 2004 by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom, with the aim of helping people to podcast and publish their podcasts, and to help listeners to find podcasts that suit their interests. It also plans to use the marketing potential of podcasts by allowing advertisers to find the podcasts their target audiences will listen and allow those podcasts to put commercials on their podcasts and receive money for it.
In August 2005, PodShow received about $8.85m in Venture Capital from the Sand Hill Road firms Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Sherpalo Ventures. PodShow set up company headquarters in San Francisco, California in a temporary office South of Market Street.[1] In February 2006, Curry announced Podshow L.A. a production division being setup by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff.
[edit] Podcast shows
PodShow maintains a small stable of flagship podcasts, including Curry's own Daily Source Code, The Dawn and Drew Show, Madge Weinstein's Yeast Radio, CC Chapman's Accident Hash, and tech vidcast GeekBrief.TV.
[edit] Podcast directories
PodShow runs indiePodder.org (formerly iPodder.org), and Podcast Alley, podcast directories that can be used to help people find and subscribe to podcasts.[2]
[edit] Podsafe Music Network
On August 23rd 2005, PodShow announced the launch of their Podsafe Music Network. [3] The site allows musicians or record labels to upload podsafe music into their system so that podcasters may download it for use on their podcasts, as well as the ability to sell music to listeners.
[edit] Podcast Delivery Network and PodShow+
PodShow announced the launch of the PodShowPDN (Podcast Delivery Network) on February 12, 2006. [4]. Partnering with Limelight Networks, the PodShow site began offering free content hosting and delivery to podcasters opting to sign up.
The new version of their site, called PodShow+ combines their PodShow Delivery Network, PodShow Podcast Network, and Podsafe Music Network with a new "video network" and additional functionality to create a social network in the vein of MySpace. Users can sign up as listeners or podcasters. Musicians are sent to the old Podsafe Music Network site. PodShow+ is currently in what the site terms "un-beta."
[edit] Criticisms and Controversy
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After the release of Podshow+ on July 6th 2006, a programing error resulted in RSS feeds being hijacked, with Podshow copyrights overwriting the original feeds. Instead of XML feeds linking to the original, they linked to the internal cache.[5] Adam Curry addressed the issue in the following Saturdays episode of the Daily Source Code in which he stated "We basically cache that, no different from what iTunes does." Curry went on to explain by saying "What should have happened was that the link underneath the orange on white XML button should be a direct link to the original, with original information, no added bits from us, original copyrights etc, Instead of linking to the external feed, it went to the internal feed. It wasn’t a bug, it was a dumb mistake, it slipped through." [6]
[edit] References
- ^ Podshow gets Big Bucks. podcastingnews.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
- ^ Podcast Alley Bought Out; Team Moves to Podshow. podcastingnews.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
- ^ PodShow.com Launches the Podsafe Music Network, the First Online Music Network that Features Royalty-Free Music for Listeners & Podcasters. prnewswire. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
- ^ PodShow and Limelight Networks Launch PodShowPDN - The First High Performance delivery Network for Podcasting. prnewswire.
- ^ Is PodShow Hijacking Podcasts?. podcastingnews.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
- ^ Adam Curry Speaks Up About Podshow Podcast Hijacking Controversy. podcastingnews.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-24.
