Zune Podcast Directory imminent +
Rob Greenlee, or as we like to call him, Mr. Zune Podcast (we don’t really like to call him that, I just don’t remember his official title at the moment) has released some info related to the Zune Podcast Directory and submitting your podcast to said directory.
We will be launching our Zune Marketplace Podcast Directory with approximately 1,000 podcast feeds shortly. The reason we are doing this is to seed the catalog with a base level of podcasts that Zune users and podcasters can build on over the next few months. Being a long-time podcaster, I understand that most content providers want to know about where their podcasts are being distributed and thus would want to actually submit his or her feed to us. It has been exciting over the past few weeks to have so many podcasters contact me and request inclusion in the new Marketplace podcast area – the catalog will have the first 1000 or so from us, but the rest will come from the podcasting community.
Please plan on downloading the new Zune Marketplace software on November 13th, then visit the main podcast section in the software to “Suggest a Podcast” for inclusion in the public Podcast Marketplace.
We also have a cool “Personal Podcast Feed Submission” feature in your podcast subscription collection area that is accessible after login inside of the new Zune Marketplace. This personal feed submission feature will enable advanced podcast users to add a personal list of podcast feeds to their own subscription “Collection” area. Each of those personal feeds submitted to your collection will not be seen by me or my team for general marketplace inclusion. This will be your personal and private collection of podcasts that some may or may not be in the general marketplace podcast library.
I’m still not totally sure if the new software that gets released on 11/13 will update the firmware on the Zune 30’s. Anyone out there know for sure?
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