Podcasting is the concept of distributing a media file by paid or free subscription by way of the Internet. Podcasting uses syndicated feeds and the podcast product is played on either personal computers or mobile devices. The term podcasting is a derivative of the media player iPod created and manufactured by Apple.
What makes podcasting different than various other digital audio formats is the fact that it can be automatically downloaded. To do podcasting, therefore, youll need software that is capable of reading feed formats such as the most common RSS (really simple syndication) or Atom.
While the ability to offer podcasting has been around for decades it some form or another, it didnt begin to catch on as a public product until 2004. Internet marketing caused a wave of public interest in podcasting about that time and now its grown considerably. And just keeps on growing.
Before the World Wide Web came into being in the 1982 Radio Computing Services (RCS) was the source of music and talk software for radio stations. It was in a digital format. Before the digital distribution went online, the midi format and Multicast Network distributed video and...