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RawVoice Statistics Support Zune user agent and more

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

The RawVoice Statistics system that powers the Blubrry, TechPodcasts and PodcasterNews media download statistics has been updated to detect the Zune user agent.  The Statistics system now detects over 70 different Podcatchers, web browsers, operating systems, phones and web bots.

Other clients that we are now indicated in our Statistics system include VadixBot, YodaoBot, PodPuppy podcatcher, RSS Radio podcatcher, and the uTorrent bit-torrent client

We’ve designed the system so it is easy for us to detect and add new user agents as they start to appear in the community.  We add the user agent to our system once we observe over 1,000 requests from that user agent in a given month.  We take detecting the clients and platforms seriously. 1,000 is very small compared to the millions of requests we handle every month.

We audit the user agents on a monthly basis in order to include the most comprehensive statistics system possible.  The entire process allows us to better support our podcasters in our communities.  During our last user agent audit, we indirectly discovered that the new Zune Marketplace uses the normal RSS image rather than the itunes:image.  We will be sending out a reminder to our community members to make sure both of their RSS images are up to date.

Are you using the RawVoice Statistics system at one of our communities?  If so, please leave comments to this post with your thoughts of the system along with any recommendations that you may have.

Posted in Blubrry, PodcasterNews, RawVoice Statistics, Statistics, Tech Podcasts | 1 Comment »

Post PodCamp AZ Thoughts – PodCamp Arizona is Great Place to Podcasters

Monday, November 5th, 2007

PodCamp AZ (Arizona) was a huge success. Michelle and Brent Spore planned, what I would call, the perfect un-conference. The venue was organized well, the sessions were ordered in a way that allowed podcasters at different experience levels to gain knowledge during every part of the day. I obtained a lot of knowledge from the event and I am grateful that I was able to attend.

I almost filled my notebook with ideas, suggestions and thoughts during the PodCamp. It is obvious to me that most of the focus of the sessions were geared to how to get started and how to monetize your podcast. RawVoice has been addressing these issues since the beginning and the entire PodCamp experience has reinforced my view that what we doing at RawVoice is what we should be doing.

The PodCamp provides a venue that is exclusively for podcasters. Even though RawVoice was a sponsor, we weren’t sitting there trying to spoon feed our message. Instead, knowledge was shared and friendships were made. The whole experience makes me think that Todd should move the Podcast Awards to one of the PodCamps scheduled for 2007. This type of atmosphere is definitely where the recognition of the great work everyone does should be recognized.

Below are some photos from PodCamp AZ.

Posted in Blubrry, Discussion, Information, Our Brands, PodcasterNews, Special Events, Statistics, Tech Podcasts | 1 Comment »

Podcasters Helping Podcasters

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Most of the team members here at RawVoice also actively maintain their own blogs and podcasts. So we know how frustrating it can be when a service provider experience is less than satisfying.

Anna Farmery is a dedicated business blogger and podcaster who found herself in such a situation recently. We’ve done what we could to help Anna move her entire podcast over to our Podcaster News service. With the help of our CIO Angelo and our Director of Content Jeff Hinz I’m happy to say that the mission has been accomplished.

The Engaging Brand podcast can now be found on PCN, Blubrry (where its been for a while) and anywhere else Anna would like to submit her show. The most difficult part of the exercise involved moving every one of Anna’s archived episodes on to a new server, while building her a new feed that pointed to the episodes. The fact that Anna’s podcast was on Blubrry made the process easier for Angelo, who whipped up the proper scripts to update her feed with the new enclosure addresses.

Jeff Hinz also stepped up by connecting with Anna and taking care of some of the less technical related details.

There’s still some work to do as far as getting Anna’s iTunes feed straight, but we’re just glad that Anna can keep rolling forward producing quality business content.

The message we want to send to the community is a very simple. We’re committed to committed podcasters. RawVoice is literally at the beginning of what we see as a very long road in providing services that make a difference to podcasters. Keep an eye out, stay close and enjoy the ride.

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Alternative Podcast Networks

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

If you produce short form audio content and are looking for a good outlet then I suggest that you head over to PodcasterNews (PCN) to see how we can help.

PodcasterNews was the first podcast community launched by RawVoice back in 2005. And its still a leader in delivering short form audio content to a large audience on the web.

The PCN concept is very simple. We’ve created a place where people can fill up their media players with short, news oriented audio podcasts on a variety of topics. We’ve also created a place where people who have ideas that they want to express can publish their shows and get all the benefits of podcast distribution.

Like all of our properties, PCN offers the possibility of monetization via advertising deals and producers retain the rights to their content.

PCN is powered by our custom developed RawVoice Generator platform and will improve in features and functionality over time as we build out the platform. Why not head over to PCN and customize your newscast today?

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