Welcome to developer.podshow.com, serving podcasting hackers since January 19, 2006.
Partying Together
Podcasting’s early development ran according to a simple rule: creating great software required that users and developers party together. But at least as important as the user-developer party is the developer-developer party. The writers of podcast publishing software had to pay attention to what the writers of podcast reception software were doing, and vice versa. And, frankly, the writers of both kinds of software had to pay attention to what their competitors were doing. One of life’s little ironies: you tend to share more in common with your competitors than most of the rest of the world, since you’re spending vast amounts of time thinking about the exact same problems.
Why we are Here
We’re here to continue the party, developers and developers partying together. As we roll out our various frontend sites comprising the PodShow PDN to podcasters and listeners, in parallel we’ll be deploying backend APIs that allow third-party applications to connect and support the different types of participants. Want to publish podcasts from Audacity? Let’s make it happen! Want to add podcast reception to your web browser/im client/email client? Well, why not? We’re here to help you make great apps: better versions of existing ones, new ones that nobody’s dreamed up yet or thought were impossible.
What we’ll do, Concretely
In the spirit of partying together, we’ll use this space to: toss out our own ideas, listen to your ideas, preview our APIs and solicit comments, publish our APIs, write sample implementations and point to others, organize developer events. Send us an instant message or better yet, point us to your blog.
Who are you?
Andrew Grumet here, very nice to meet you! I co-authored the Juice podcast receiver (formerly iPodder Lemon, 1.4 million downloads and counting) and built the GigaDial podcast remixer back in November, 2004. Speaking of which, if you want to put podcasts directly on my iPod, you can do it right here. I just moved to San Francisco to join PodShow where the team and I are busy conjuring up a new generation of podcast tools. I’m new to the area so feel free to send me a shout out.
Party on.
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