The product enables users to mix up to three sources (pre-recorded media, or live cameras), add transitions, lower thirds, overlays, logos, and live elements to the video feed and record it as a quicktime file or upload it to Apple's podcast producer.

When you launch the software, you can chose a show template - news, hi-tech, sports, or blank template.

Based on your choice, a complex and unintuitive interface is opened, that allows you to define which overlays should be used, titles, lower thirds, transitions and logos.

Though filled with options and out of the box graphics, it took me a while to learn how to operate this tool. Having said that, it is still much simpler (and cheaper) then learning After Effects or other post production tools.

This application is very appealing to churches, local football teams, schools, and other communities looking for a cheap and easy to use tool that will give their video production a bit of a boost. The same goes for video podcasters. However, it has some major disadvantages:

1. It doesn't support live broadcasting - unlike CamTwist, BoinxTV is only for recording media, not live broadcasting. This is a major disadvantage as its live mixing abilities are impressive, and could make the life of blogtv and ustream broadcasters much simpler, and improve their production value.

2. The interface is not easy to use at all. it took me a while to get the UI concept - even though Boinx make some amazing apps.

3. Many of its features can be found in free alternative, though online, such as Mogulus.

4. And on a personal note, I don't really like applications which promise too much before they are able to deliver it. They do make post production easier, for a very specific segment of users, but this is still not a substitute for post production applications such as After Effects. Therefore, their notion of "Say Goodbye to Post Production" is a little overdoing it in my opinion.

You can follow the application's twitter account, watch an interview with the company, and read more about the application here.

]]> http://radiovisual.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/que-es-un-podcast/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:20:05 +0000 jcattani http://radiovisual.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/que-es-un-podcast/

Son archivos de audio (y también de video) que se graban en un formato (wav, mp3, ogg) y se distribuyen en Internet. El precursor de este fenómeno fue Adam Curry, quien en agosto de 2004 transmite "Trade Secrets" para probar iPodder que luego se llamó Juice. Actualmente, Curry emite "Daily Source Code" uno de los podcast más escuchados en el mundo. Lo que hace atractivo a un podcast es lo mismo que un blog: independencia, espontaneidad, no hay censura, lo puedes escuchar donde quieras y, tal vez lo más importante, puedes comunicarte con miles de personas en la Red. La constancia en la emisión de un podcast genera fidelización. En nuestro país uno de los sitios más visitados y que convoca a muchos amantes del podcast es Podcaster.

A Apple nunca foi tão comparada com a Microsoft como nas últimas semanas. Eles barraram algumas aplicações da App Store sem um motivo claro, e isso irritou demais os desenvolvedores. Uma delas foi o Podcaster, que como o nome diz, serve para baixar e ouvir Podcasts. A Apple alega que é uma duplicação de função e barrou a aplicação, só que esta função não existe no iPhone hoje. Para se escutar Podcasts é preciso sincronizar com o iTunes. Além disso, outras aplicações já duplicam funções, como vários aplicativos de notas..

Bom, mas hoje a Apple liberou esta nota dizendo que vai ser mais branda e está tirando o NDA.

Não sabemos ainda como será a política daqui para frente. Tudo isso pode ser efeito do Android da Google que terá uma loja de aplicativos sem nenhum tipo de censura. 

Acho que por um lado até faz sentido um filtro para conter aplicações que não rodem bem no iPhone ou prejudiquem de alguma forma o desempenho, mas este não é o caso. Ah, quem quiser usar o Podcaster e várias outras aplicações barradas pode usar o Cydia, que é o grande repositório de aplicações rejeitadas na loja oficial. Para usá-lo tem que antes fazer um Jailbreak com o Pwnage.

Y lo dicho, Podcaster luego de ser rechazado por Apple para su comercialización vía el App Store, hace su aparición en Cydia bajo el mísmo nombre, esta aplicación es de uso libre por 15 días y luego habrá que registrarla previo pago. Tal y como TouchCast y MobileCast permite administrar nuestros podcast ya sea de audio o video, trae implementado un sistema de búsquedas de podcasts para hacernos más facil la suscripción a ellos, pero también trae la opción de importar los podcasts vía podcaster.com o vía la url del feed del podcast al que querramos suscribirnos, permite descargar los capítulos o verlos al vuelo (streaming).

Vía | Cydia

This time its on time, or something like that.  We go over the usual fun stuff and do it in record time, just a little over an hour.  This podcast has tons of fun stuff and remember;

"Senor Cole Train tells you to check out the latest Retail Gamers Podcast with all its super dope games like Valhalla halla Knights 2."  Senor Cole Train can sum it up in one word, "aight!"

Build a tent, or cozy up in the race car bed only a 7 year old boy could dream of, its time for Retail Gamers Podcast Episode: 014.

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Hear are a few of the new ones:
1. iBlogger
2. Blogpress
3. Twitfire for you Twitter fanboys

I have not setup iBlogger of Blogpress yet but from the reviews both look great supporting wordpress, blogger & etc. One of them has a feature to post inline or wrap text around photos which would be cool and a feature I can't do right now with this wordpress for iPhone app.

I posted a tweet this morning to twitter using @twitfire , I like the app and really love the feature to insert a URL in a tweet but it needs a show my replies & DMs option for me to really use it. Thanks to @appvee on Twitter for the find.

And old favorite made it on to apple's app store this week, twitxr. Twitxr was real big for twitter users who wanted a way to post photos on Twitter. Twitxr did it before Utterz now utterli & Brightkite was launched. Twitxr still has a growing community and their iPhone app was always one of the best in usibility.

Another new or updated app that has changed it's name is now mobile fotos, a Flickr iPhone app. I think it was mobile Flickr, either way it's a great app that uses the iPhone's gps to find flickr photos of people near by. It reminds me of twinkle but for Flickr photos.

Ok that's it for now and I'll try to post more often, I think the next post is going to be about podcaster & dtunes other ways to get music & podcast on your iPhone besides the app store & iTunes.

Screenshots below

What about NetShare? Maybe not because that application allowed the iPhone to be tethered (used as a wireless modem), encouraging some users to jailbreak (enable unofficial application installations) their phones and install the easy-to-use iPhoneModem tethering tool. Guess what... Apple banned that one too!

Well, they've done it again! Yet another useful app has been banned, this time because it is too similar to the built in iPhone Mail app.

MailWrangler, by Angelo DiNardi, allows users to add and access multiple Gmail accounts, simply directly loading and showing Gmail inside of an application. MailWrangler also lets users see threaded views and Google contacts, archive (quickly), star messages and get more functionality missing from Apple's Mail app.

As an iPhone user, I am annoyed that I cannot get the best applications for my iPhone, just the ones developed by Apple (unless it turns your iPhone into a glowstick - really useful!!!).

What do you think about this?

Prendendo in prestito la mail inviata da PB a tutti noi organizzatori dell'evento vado a spiegare che cosa è il Podcastday 2008.

Carissimi colleghi Podcaster, carissimi Artisti e carissimi AMICI,
come lo scorso anno, il 26 ottobre 2008 sarà PODCAST DAY. Il motto
scelto per questa edizione è LIBERA LA VOGLIA DI COMUNICARE! In un
momento in cui la libertà (di parola, di opinione) del web è sempre più
messa a dura prova da egoismi, business e profitto, far sentire la
nostra voce, le Voci vere e proprie della rete penso sia importante.
Questa è l'interpretazione che ho dato al motto, nato quasi per caso in
uno scambio di e-mail tra amici podcasters. Libertà vuol dire anche che
ognuno potrà interpretare questo motto in maniere differenti, magari
anche discordanti dalle mie e queste differenze credo possano aiutare il
dialogo e la crescita tra noi podcaster.

Sul sito ufficiale dell'evento troverete a breve i loghi e il
codice per applicare correttamente il banner (con relativo link) al
vostro sito.

Per i neofiti spiego brevemente di cosa si tratta; il PODCAST DAY
Italiano è una giornata sviluppata sul web, con l'obiettivo di
promuovere e diffondere la conoscenza dei Podcast Indipendenti Italiani,
quest'anno racchiusi per la prima volta sotto un unico portale,
www.gunp.it, creato dal Dok di RockCast Italia.
L'anno scorso si è svolta la prima di queste giornate, con buoni
risultati a livello di risonanza e numero di post/articoli.

Funziona con lo stesso meccanismo del più famoso "BlogDay"
(www.blogday.org), ossia, agli utenti-ascoltatori-blogger-podcaster che
decidono di partecipare all'iniziativa si chiede semplicemente di fare
ciò che è indicato qui sotto:

-1- NELLE SETTIMANE PRECEDENTI ALL'EVENTO PUBBLICIZZARE E DIFFONDERE LA
GIORNATA MEDIANTE LINK, BANNER, E-MAIL ALLE TESTATE GIORNALISTICHE
ONLINE E AI SITI SPECIALIZZATI; PER I PODCASTER SAREBBE BENE PARLARE
DELLA COSA DURANTE GLI EPISODI DEL PROPRIO PODCAST

-2- ASCOLTARE >>TRE<< PODCAST INDIPENDENTI TRATTI DA WWW.GUNP.IT

-3- RECENSIRE IL TUTTO CON UN POST SUL PROPRIO BLOG/SITO IL GIORNO 26
OTTOBRE 2008, IMPOSTANDO COME "TAG", "podcast day 2008".

Semplicissimo credo. In caso di dubbi, idee, perplessità, angosce, non
esitate e chiedetemi pure informazioni e chiarimenti.
podcastdayitalia@gmail.com

Spero in una vostra partecipazione numerosa, attiva ed entusiasta. Sono
sicuro che sarà così, come lo scorso anno e sono altrettanto convinto
che anche questa volta il Podcast Day sarà una occasione di crescita per
noi tutti (e non mi riferisco solo al numero di abbonati del feed! :-D).

Daniel Eran Dilger explains very well why Podcaster should be banned according to Apple's viewpoint, what he fails to explain is why an open platform is a "welfare handout to small developers". In fact, it is just the opposite, it's free enterprise at work, and many other platforms, mobile and otherwise, do fine without such onerous restrictions as the app store and the SDK's rather vague and threatening terms. I fail to see how podcaster, and programs like it, threaten the "elegance and simplicity" of the iPhone to the extent that they need to be kept from licit distribution. To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin: "Someone who abandons freedom in the name of elegance and simplicity, deserves neither elegance, nor simplicity." Or to put it more simply, Daniel, stop being an apologist for Apple's every step and misstep.

As reported by Sarah Perez over on ReadWriteWeb, Podcaster developer Alex Sokirynsky has used the iPhone's "ad-hoc" distribution feature, designed to help enterprises install custom apps, to make Podcaster available outside the walled garden that is the App Store. I'm not clear how he's doing this--I thought that ad-hoc distribution permitted installation of an app on no more than a hundred iPhones. But I followed Sokirynsky's instructions and ended up with a working copy of Podcaster on my phone.

The process is very, very far from the simple and seamless experience of installing an application via the App Store, although it wasn't radically more complicated than many shareware purchases I've made over the years. You send Sokirynsky a lengthy "identifier" code that identifies your iPhone (it's available in iTunes) and make a $9.99 "donation" to him via PayPal. He then provisions your iPhone for Podcaster and sends you a link to the app in the form of a Zip file, which you can then download, bring into iTunes, and sync onto your iPhone. He warns that this could take a few days; in my case, it took a bit under six hours from the time I initiated the process until the time I was good to go.

Sokirynsky's site includes the following warning:

IMPORTANT NOTE: We are giving it away when we receive a donation of $9.99 or more. The program should work for a minimum of one year but since Apple can turn it off remotely, the 1 year installation is not guaranteed. We will do everything in our power to keep the program working. All donations are final and cannot be refunded.

In other words, he makes no promises. And it's hard to say how Apple might react to this; I don't know if Sokirynsky is violating the rules for ad-hoc distribution. Or, if he is, whether Apple can or will do anything about it. I hope to heck that I'm not violating any agreement I made with Apple and/or AT&T by using the app.

Bottom line: The iPhone supposedly has a kill switch that lets Apple nuke any app remotely at any time, so I knew from the start that my ten-dollar investment might be wasted.

It is hard to believe that Apple won't refine ad-hoc distribution to make it as hard as possible for folks whose apps are rejected from the App Store to use it for end runs, though. And I'm unclear why Sokirynsky is apparently the first developer to go this route.

Okay, enough background. Podcaster's concept is unquestionably cool: It lets you stream or download podcasts directly to the phone across a cell or Wi-Fi connection, without having to sync them from a Mac or PC. (It also works with iPod Touches over Wi-Fi, natch.) Does it live up to the concept? Yes indeed, for the most part.

The nicely-done interface lets you find podcasts by browsing featured ones, popular ones, recent ones, or top-rated ones, or by importing feeds or opml files. The podcasts and associated data appear to come via Sokirysnky's Podcaster.fm site; I did notice a podcast or two that's easy to find in iTunes but which I could get into Podcaster only by adding the feed manually. (You can also import your podcast list from iTunes via Podcaster.fm, in theory at least--I tried with my sizable-but-not-enormous podcast lineup, and it rejected my file as being too big.)

You can download or stream podcasts one at a time, or choose an auto-sync option that keeps the ten most recent episodes of a podcast on your phone at all times. Everything works as advertised, and about the only major quibble I have is that it requires too many screen taps to see the description of a particular podcast episode, which in some cases (such as with NPR's Fresh Air) is used to identify the episode topic.

Oh, and once you start listening to a podcast, Podcaster sends you off to the iPhone's QuickTime media player to do the actual playing. It's very slightly less seamless than listening to a podcast in the phone's iPod example.

Overall, though, I can't imagine anyone who loves podcasts wanting, at the very least, the option to choose for himself or herself whether to use iTunes, Podcaster, or both. I think it's an important iPhone application, since it takes the phone even further in the direction of being an autonomous computing and communications device that doesn't require a computer.

You'd think Apple would actively like applications that show off the iPhone's gigantic potential. Even if it doesn't, I sure do--and I hold out hope that Podcaster will make it into the App Store in some form, at some point. For now, I'm glad I gambled the ten bucks to try it out.

Here are a few screenshots from the app, which do at least as good a job as I can of conveying the look, feel, and functionality:

Like the T-List? Read it as a feed.

Err, so what? This is how it breaks down:

• Apple is a business that answers to shareholders, not whiny fucking developers and bloggers. 
• Said shareholders expect the people that run the company to take every opportunity to make as much many as possible. If that means protecting their intellectual property then that is what they have to do. 
• Apple invented the fucking iPhone, iTunes and the App Store. Sure, Windows Mobile, Nokia or RIM (Blackbery) could have something similar, but they fucking didn't did they. I bet they wish they had and are busy pushing out a shit me-too copy cat products right, but they fucking didn't do it before Apple. 
• App Store downloads are going to hit 1 billion very shortly. That is within weeks of the launch. Don't you fucking get it? The App Store gives you direct access to an enormous worldwide market. You don't have to do shit! The economics are fucking mind blowing, how else can you get your product to market this directly, this fast and at basically no real up front cost. Other than your time developing the app. What the fuck else were you going to do with your time? You would have just been playing o World of Warcraft or something equally as geeky. 

This week the company faces a full-scale revolt. The issue: Apple's summary rejection of a program on the grounds that it duplicated a function on one of its own programs.

"Apple has gone too far," writes Paul Kafasis for O'Reilly Digital Media. "Rejecting an application because it might compete with Apple is simply indefensible."

"If this is truly Apple’s policy, it’s a disaster for the platform," says Daring Fireball's John Gruber, one of Apple's most influential supporters.

"I will never write another iPhone application for the App Store as currently constituted," writes Fraser Speirs, developer of a popular iPhone app called Exposure. His post is titled "App Store: I'm Out."

The battle lines were drawn when an Apple representative reviewing submissions for the App Store rejected a program called Podcaster. According to its developer, Alex Sokirynsky, Apple turned his program down on these grounds:

"Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes." (link)

But as nearly every commentator has pointed out, Podcaster went an important step beyond Apple's program. iTunes requires that you plug the iPhone into your computer to sync it before you can get the latest broadcasts. Podcaster, by contrast, would have let you update your podcast subscriptions directly, using the iPhone's Wi-Fi receiver.

"I'd buy that app in a minute," writes Speirs, echoing the opinion of most of the two dozen bloggers who by Sunday morning had weighed in on the issue.

Part of the problem is that Apple's policy lacks consistency. The iPhone comes with many built-in functions  -- a calendar, a calculator, a clock and a weather program -- that are duplicated by apps the company has already approved.

Moreover, it's not as if iPhone programmers have another option besides the App Store, a formidable market place that now carries more than 3,000 programs and has racked up more than 100 million downloads (link). Unless they release it as freeware for jailbroken iPhones, there is no other outlet for a program once it has been rejected by Apple.

"If they don't approve it you can't sell it," writes Dave Winer, the developer who pioneered the RSS blog syndication system. "You can't even give it away."

[UPDATE: It turns out there is another way to distribute applications. As ReadWriteWeb's Sarah Perez explains, Sokirynsky has turned to Apple's little-used Ad Hoc App Distribution system to make Podcaster available. You can get it here. Sokirynsky is asking for a $9.99 donation, and adds: "The program should work for a minimum of one year but since Apple can turn it off remotely, the 1 year installation is not guaranteed."]

Speirs has called for Apple to issue some "clear and unambiguous rules" about what will and will not be accepted, and to put in place a pre-approval system so developers can get a sense of whether their idea will fly before they go out and borrow money or hire talent or put in long days and nights of coding.

"The sad thing," writes Chuq Von Rospach, a long-time Apple systems developer, "is [that] it wouldn't take much effort from Apple to deal with this. A little communication. Not even a LOT of communication, and they could sort most of these issues out."

Even sadder, Von Rospach adds, "is that they don't seem to care (or notice)." (link)

Apple (AAPL) has yet to comment on the issue.

2008-09-10-podcasting-followup

Listen here and now:

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TEXT: how to submit feedback to a podcast

MUSIC: Isaac Hayes - "Hyperbolicsyllabicsequedalymistic" (album Hot Buttered Soul, 1969)

RUNNING TIME: 14'49"

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TEXT

Sean McGaughey, Canadian podcaster, has an initiative called K7. He explains it in this episode. Along the way he also offers tips on how to leave feedback to a podcast, so the podcaster is as happy as a summer day.

MUSIC

Isaac Hayes passed away recently.

His music has inspired feelings into me that cover a large spectrum. From straight-funk dances to pillow-talk.

He also inspired lots of my DJ dissertations, due to his guts as a composer, piano player, band leader and vocalist.

Note. During the episode, I keep talking about a 3-track album, but HOT BUTTERED SOUL was a 4-track album. Apologize.

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CREDITS and REFERENCES:

Isaac Hayes on Wikipedia

Isaac Hayes official website

Photo - panda.face on Flickr - thank you!

This is one of our best shows to date.  We have killer info and we had a lot of fun recording this show.  We know its long but its worth the listen, enjoy guys.

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I am now in the position to affirm the same about podcasters.

** ** **

I met podcasters this year at Podcamp Toronto, Podcasters Across Borders in Kingston, Podcamp Boston. Lots of interesting people! Kind, ready-to-help, "make sure you call if you're in the neighborhood".

Podcasters are entertaining!

If you don't trust me, look at my son watching podcaster Sean McGaughey as we visited him and his lovely family in Midland, Ontario, during our one-week Muskoka holiday.

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Thank you Sean, Nancy and Sarah!

Well, on the off chance that it's a real person, and said real person happens to be a book reader, I'd like to recommend you pick up Mur Lafferty's book Playing for Keeps.  She's a longtime podcaster with a lot of talent who's finally gotten a big break and had her superhero novel published by a small press.  If you're reading this on Monday, August 25, Mur's looking to rush the Amazon charts.  It's a great book, and I'm thrilled I'm going to have a chance to own a copy, rather than just have a backed up version of the podiobook.

Good luck, Mur!

Dobbiamo rispondere a un po' di commenti e ad un po' di email...nel frattempo vi lasciamo questo link di due giovani podcaster/blogger ai quali facciamo un'enorme in bocca al lupo promettendo di ascoltare il loro primo episodio quanto prima!

Ciao a tutti... "veniamo giù dai monti dai monti col barolo cantiamo tutti in coro podcaster che bontà! Podcaster che bontà!!!" :D

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It really sucks when something you own breaks, I'll keep it as simple as that. Apparently my motherboard and power source are both shot, meaning I need to do some major repairs or get a new PC, I have chosen the second.

Until my new PC arrives the status of our Podcast is in a flux. I'm currently trying to get my laptop up and running for recording purposes and we will see how this will work out. In the mean time I apologize for no podcast update. We all hope to have a podcast out this week so make sure to check back soon.

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