Friday, 01 June 2007
Proprietary standards lose again
Audible shutters its proprietary podcast service.
Via Jeff Jarvis, who is indulging in some schadenfreude.
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"From the start, Wordcast appeared to be a solution looking for a problem. Podcasting took off at the end of 2004, in large part, because podcasts were based on established standards (MP3s & RSS), they were interoperable and they were free. Wordcast, on the other hand, was proprietary, exclusive and designed to be a platform for paid podcasts...
While Audible managed to generate a tremendous amount of buzz with the Wordcast anouncement, little of the positive buzz came from people involved in blogging or podcasting." -- Podcasting News: Audible Kills Wordcast Service; Podcasting Not Quite Dead Yet
Via Jeff Jarvis, who is indulging in some schadenfreude.
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