Yahoo tunes into podcasting craze with new search tools

[mandy]

Hoping to tune into the latest craze in digital media, Yahoo Inc. is introducing tools for finding, organising and rating "podcasts'' - the audio programmes designed to be played on Apple Inc.'s iPod and many other portable music players.

Yahoo isn't the first Web site to search podcasts. Specialty Web sites such as Odeo.com and Podcast.net already do the same thing.

But Yahoo is the first Internet heavyweight to tackle the task. 

full article: http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/10/10/business/20051010115518&sec=business

Yahoo Podcast search beta site: http://podcasts.yahoo.com/

[rose]

They have a making podcasts tutorial and you can submit podcasts too http://podcasts.yahoo.com/publish

[jezebel]

iPodder Lemon

Easy Podcast

[misteroriginal]

This is important stuff! www.podcastalley.com lists 333 video podcasts, last time I checked. People who just bought a shiny new Apple video iPod are, without a doubt, starving for content. Making & posting the podcast is essentially free, so you put e-commerce site in a list of 300 or so avante garde sites instead of a list of 3 billion or so boring sites.

There are many more audio podcasts, but the list is still short.

[jezebel]

so you put e-commerce site in a list of 300 or so avante garde sites

You risk drawing the wrath of lookers who want entertainment not commercials.

[misteroriginal]

[quote author=jezebel link=topic=751.msg7485#msg7485 date=1137032397]

so you put e-commerce site in a list of 300 or so avante garde sites

You risk drawing the wrath of lookers who want entertainment not commercials.
[/quote]

Remember JibJab? This guy is supposed to be a success story, but I don't know how me makes his money. His stuff is hilarious, but the only "commercial" is the name JibJab at the beginning/end. That's enough to draw people to his site, which is one goal of advertising.

Frik 'n Frak post links to funny videos, and I've snooped around their site to see what they sell as a result of it. I have an extreeeeeeeemely low threshold for advertising, but since they made me laugh first, I was in a happy mood while snooping around to see just "who the heck are these people!"