Clearing the air about Podnova
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
If you have been listening to the TPC for the last couple of weeks, then you know I am a fan of what they are doing over at Podnova. And in recent weeks, I have speculated about Adam Curry’s involvement in the endeavor – if any.
My musings came mainly from a set of circumstantial evidence. For instance, there is some connection between Curry and iPodder Lemon, and between iPodder Lemon and Podnova. Secondly, Podnova utilizes dynamic OPML which Curry has been podcasting about almost from the beginning. Also, too, is the fact that Podnova’s potential for collecting accurate distribution data on individual podcasts is a tool that Curry’s company Podshow will have to have to realize it’s mission statement; and Podnova arrived on the scene just about the time that Podshow would be developing such a system.
And of course there is the fact that no one has disputed this open speculation, until now:
- Russell from mobilepodcast.org talks about iPodder Lemon in combination with PodNova, the fragment starts around 12 minutes. He sees the right things in terms of the functionality we offer, glad you like it Russell!
However, you (among others) seem to think that PodNova is an 'Adam Curry production'. There you are wrong. We did contact him several times to inform him what we are doing, even before we released. He never responded to anything (e-mail, skype, voicemail), and never mentions us in his Daily Source Code. Odd you might think, as we're doing pretty neat things for the podcasting world.
Anyway, we have our own views and plans for the future. We will keep adding functionality for podcasters and listeners. Non-evil win/win situations is what we are looking for, good for podcasters, good for listeners, good for the technology.
Contact us if you have more unanswered questions!
Robin en Erik
So there you have it: offical confirmation from Podnova that Curry is in no way associated with nor will benefit from Podnova’s service or the statistics that they collect. (That is what it says, right?)
But that still leaves the question open of what is going to be done with all that data…
posted by Russell @ 11:38 AM,
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