Posted on Saturday 16 July 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Apple is currently pushing podcasting with the inclusion of the technology into iTunes. Daring Fireball has a long and great (as usual) article about it and iLounge has a well written beginner’s guide and an other one about the use of the feature in iTunes so you can go out and start to create your own podcasts with relative ease, but what is the future of podcasting now about one year after it was invented by Adam Curry? At a time where Google already comes up with over ten million search results and Microsoft tells their employers to call the technology blogcasting in their usual attempt to blur standards that are not their own, it’s defenitly time to think about the next step. So what will it be, what is the next step?
Let’s find that out by having a short look at the roots of the technology. Podcasts are basicaly a form of RSS feeds, they just don’t link to news- or blogposts, they link to audio. By now RSS has covered websites (text) and audio (podcasts), so the next logical step can only be video (call it videocasting or maybe showcasting). The iTunes music store (iTMS) is already featuring music videos, so the technology is more or less already there, it just needs a push from Apple, maybe together with an iPod that supports videos or just somewhere out there in the wild where the original podcasts where invented to let the online communities walk the first miles. However it will happpen, it’s defenitly the next big thing if you ask me and I should better make a backup of this post now for future reference.
Fredi
