Archive for April, 2007

Capture the Conversation

by James Clark
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The importance of PodCampNYC

10 Apr 2007

The main reason that it was so important is that over the past year the podcasting community has become quite the echo chamber with the same questions and answers that were floating around in 2005. And for those of us that remember all them it can be a real drag to revisit them. This event, for me, proved that podcasting is ready to grow. Ready to prove itself as a viable distribution technology for the masses. In other words, go big. As podcasting matures and starts to branch there are many conversations that need to take place and events like PodCampNYC make sure that they can. Newbies need to talk with novices, the novices need to hear from veterans and the veterans need a place to push the envelope. PodCampNYC was it. This event came at just the right time for all of these to converge. There's quite a bit to be…

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Capture the Conversation

by Jason Cormier
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YouTube Integrates with CastLock

05 Apr 2007

Arguably press-release worthy, we just integrated YouTube’s API into our CastLock RSS Mediacasting platform. Why is this cool and what does it mean? For starters, our clients who choose to host video content with YouTube can now have their play-ready videos displayed within their own web pages without having to tinker with any HTML. Possibly cooler: the video title, description, thumbnail images, comments, and number of views tracked in YouTube will automatically be pulled and displayed within a client’s domain. Always keeping an SEO focus, the client maintains the ability to add keyword tagging to each entry – and of course, all RSS feed stats are available for meaningful reporting. Fun stuff.

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