Posted on Wednesday 5 October 2005 - Popularity: unranked
After months of hard resistance, giving the popular podcasts different names, for example blogcast, Microsoft now finally realized that this one can’t be won and that it would be wise to use the name anyone else was using all the time, podcast. While the name didn’t originate at Apple, the term pod in podcast always related to the iPod and it was the reason why Microsoft tried everything to establish an other term, till now. From one of their official sites:
Getting Started with Podcasts
A podcast is an audio or video file that you can subscribe to online. The advantage to a podcast is that you don’t need to remember to go back and get the newest information from your favorite online source. Once you subscribe to the podcast it will automatically show up in your reader. The readers are usually free or low cost. The majority of podcasts are available as audio files in MP3 format, syndicated through an RSS (XML) file. Other formats and other types of files, such as video, can also be podcasted. The content is downloaded to your desktop PC or mobile device. It’s not streamed, so you can access the content when you want.
Previously Microsoft has used those orange RSS buttons for podcasts, the same buttons already used for normal RSS feeds, but now they have switched to an orange POD button as this example shows and their employee’s can now officially use the phrase podcasting in their blogs. Apple will definitely not be unhappy about it.
Fredi
