Podcastplayer.org news

I tried to post this a few days ago, but it seems to have never made it through. Sigh.

It seems that James Corbett and Liam Burke are trying to work out a way of using podcasting as a kind of dating service. That’s wacky enough to be worth mentioning, but the thing that really caught my eye is the idea of using GMail, with its much touted “gigabyte of storage for every user", as a way to store and distribute podcasts.

Purists will argue that submitting audio files to a GMail account can’t really be labelled ‘podcasting’ since there is no way of automatically downloading the email attachments via RRS enclosure or syncing with your MP3 player, but I still think its a valid and interesting experiment.

That may be the case now but I’m guessing it can’t be that hard to write something that “scrapes” a gmail account and generates a RSS feed with enclosures pointing at the actual emails.

Of course it would mean that even your podcasts get swallowed up into the ravenous and ever-growing Google monster.

Read more at EirePreneur: Podating? and Liam Burke’s Podhost Gmail account