Yahoo Creates New Podcasting Directory

Yahoo launched on Monday a podcast service that offers access to much of the streaming audio on the Web and features user reviews and other information about the programming.

Yahoo Podcasts (http://podcasts.yahoo.com) is intended to enable people to easily search podcasts through keywords, categories or user-generated topic tags. The beta site also highlights podcasts of note, those that are particularly popular and user recommendations and ratings, said Geoff Ralston, Yahoo's chief product officer.

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http://podcasts.yahoo.com/rr?s=65fb03352d675ceaa7ba82c4d89893bb

Searchers can listen to or subscribe to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds for individual shows or episodes of programming or entire series.

Users who listen to a podcast through the Yahoo site can increase the playback speed to hear the audio at up to twice the actual speed, without the voices sounding like chipmunks.

Yahoo plans to eventually offer tools that will enable people to create their own podcasts.

They also have a 3 page podcast primer on creating and publishing, which go along the same guidelines as my e-book, www.podcastsecretsrevealed.com.