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Podcasting Via Mobile
Author: greg22 Aug
I came across this article yesterday and wanted to post it sooner but life gets in the way.
It seems that a company named Melodeo, hmm sounds much like Odeo (which is the new company it seems), is introducing an application that makes it possible to subscribe and download Podcasts directly on your phone.
Intersting, but impractical. I’ve got a Nokia 7610. It takes 1MP pictures. Trying to send one of those pictures up and out into the ether is painstakingly slow. Would it seem “easier” to download a 20MB podcast? Not just yet, in my book.
However, one thing that does make me curious is whether or not content should/would be downsampled to make the downloads more manageable. It seems that compressing the MP3s that we’re using down to something painfully low, it might just work out considering the player.
Any thoughts? Anyone preparing low-end versions of their podcasts?
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5 Responses for "Podcasting Via Mobile"
Despite my general apathy towards the *blazing* speeds given by EV-DO, I think the particular example is due to poor distribution mechanisms. EV-DO is clearly not a symmetric technology with download speeds anywhere between 500kbps to 1.5Mbps with 700k being average. The problem is upload speeds measuring in at an underwhelming 200-300kbps, at best.
Change the distribution mechanism to one which mitigates the upload bottleneck, such as bittorrent or any other swarm-based tech, and you’ve reduced one problem area.
What gets even more interesting is the implications arising in a real-world peer-to-peer system that allows on-demand content sharing. I believe Wired had an article about something they termed “Roadcasting”, but the idea can be generalized to person-to-person content sharing in urban settings. With stable multihop adhoc network connectivity anywhere between 14Mbps-7Mbps, this seems a more likely podcast enabler than 3G technologies.
PS: Your automated checks “questionable content” are overly sensitive, causing extreme aggravation… In the event you actually want comments, I’d suggest changing it. It doesn’t even like my website address.
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