Comments on: New Features Prototypes

By: Branimir Dolicki

Branimir Dolicki — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:38:46 +0000

I like the “Your Program Queue” very much and I’m using it all the time. “Personal Podcast” is another kind of RSS feed that sounds promising. I have an idea for a third kind of feed, one which isn’t for me but for other people whom I want to recommend the IT conversations. I often find myself pointing friends to recently listened conversations that I liked. It would be nice if this could be automated, so that I can point them to a RSS feed (call it “I recommend”) and they can always get those conversations that I liked. Of course I could hack it manually and just for my site, but if it were a feature of the itconversations.com it might drive more trafic to it. If people could link the “I love ITconverstions” button directly to the list of conversations they recommend, that could increase the number of people willing to put the button. The list could be generated automatically from ballot ratings.

By: Jon Wright

Jon Wright — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 22:40:02 +0000

Most of my questions have already been answered here. Looks good to me:-)

By: OninO

OninO — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:31:45 +0000

I had my personal program queue feed. I’d subscribed it with ipodder 1.1.4 buti it doesn’t download anything. So i tried BlogMatrix Jager: it works, but not so well: let me explain you.
I subscribe the queue feed and in my queue there are 5 items, 5 enclosures. Jager start downloading all of them, one after one. Then i shutdown it. I go adding another couple of item in my queue (without removing the others) and then i run Jager. It does not only download the 2 new item but downloads another time the first 5, overwriting them to the original ones.
Probably the error is mine either for ipodder and for jager, but i tried to solve it without success.
Could you help me?
For jager: have i to remove the old items in my queue before adding new? If so, it seems to me not so userfriendly since keeping trace of every podcast i’ve download seems to me necessary.

Let me know.
(sorry for my not so good english)

By: Lisa Harper

Lisa Harper — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:17:12 +0000

I just dumped the iPodderX client since NetNewsWire has good support for enclosures and podcasting, in general. So how is this relevant? I’m not sure the best solution is an automatic one… but rather concerns the interface and availability of textual or visual information accompanying the audio cast. Now that I’m using NetNewsWire, I can easily choose the podcasts that I want to download and listen to… content is summarized in text that’s quick to scan. Couple this with search techniques and now you’ve got a great solution. Hmmm.. reminds me of gmail…

By: Paul Schaeflein

Paul Schaeflein — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:18:21 +0000

Can you put a link to “Add to my queue” on the emails that announce the shows?

By: FLEB

FLEB — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:34:37 +0000

I think that restricting it to Paid Only would be doing yourself a disservice. By using the preferences, you will (most likely) end up with people downloading only what MP3s they want and will listen to. That means less bandwidth usage for you sending people files they don’t want.

With strict and tight structuring of the data, I imagine that you would be able to get less of a detriment due to performance and space-usage then you would by having listeners download files they don’t want.

I’d say “go free”, even to the point of requiring RSS listeners to create their own feed.

By: davidj

davidj — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:03:39 +0000

I am a simple listener. This simple interface would help me to get straight to the type of content that I would like to hear. I just started listening to podcasting about 2 weeks ago. It was IT Conversations that brought me into it.

I don’t think I would be willing to pay for just that feature. But that is only because I am new and haven’t understood the benefits of the total service.

By: Gary LaPointe

Gary LaPointe — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:46:28 +0000

The “Podcast/RSS feed” stuff looks awesome for configuration. Although I’m thinking that’s still going to look overwhelming to a new user.

I’m not clear if I mark “gilmore gang” as NO but they do a show about one of my topics of interest, do I still get it. (It would probably be nice to).

Speaking of new users: Some of the descriptions of sessions even when scrolling through the library are hard to figure out. Lot’s of “john smith leads ________________ at bloggercon” but no indication as to what “____________” is.

Maybe what’s needed is a 90 second “What’s new this week feed” which gives you a verbal description of new shows. So new users (and old) could get that and hear what’s going on in all the feeds. Maybe I don’t care about one of the categories but they might cover something that I am interested in. Or an e-mail which tells you about recent ‘casts AND has a link in it so if you are interested in it, it automatically adds it to your feed

Awesome service as always!
Thanks,
Gary

By: Michael Koziarski

Michael Koziarski — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:26:20 +0000

I like the “never send a ballot” option. Similarly the program selection stuff is cool.

I’d still like to be able to override that though, if there’s a “add this to my podcast queue” link with each item I think I’ll have the best of both worlds

By: Dann Sheridan

Dann Sheridan — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 18:12:23 +0000

This looks great. I’d be willing to pay for this functionality. I’ve been waiting for someone to do personalized RSS feeds. I think that EarningsCast could benefit from this type of personalization as well. Do you have plans to package this up and make it available at as a WordPress plug-in or a stand alone PHP app?