Podcasts.Yahoo.com went live today.

It’ll help you find and listen to podcasts as well as create your own podcasts.

Many of my friends in Bangalore are part of the team that created this. Kudos to them for converting a concept to a product launch in an amazing short period!

Update : Interestingly, Yahoo! announced this via a podcast. Very appropriate.

Anush “interviews” me.

P.S. No, I did not select that photo.

Aamir Khan is blogging as Mangal Pandey?

Somebody pinch me, I still can’t believe it. Is this for real?

(via Mekin)

Update: Scoble confirms it is authentic.

I’ll blame Adam Curry for getting me addicted to that podcast song. Just can’t get the tune out of my head.

My favorite part of the lyrics is:

You want it, you got it…just download it and pod it On a podcast…no one’s gonna stop ya Tell the FCC to stick it…kick it… The revolution’s on

It’s history, now you see, each and every nation Radio has got to go, it’s our emancipation Play that song, sing along, mash it up and mix it Radio was ____ ‘til Adam Curry fixed it

Mp3 killed the radio star…

Siddharth Uppal asked about a REST API for Yahoo! 360° and it seems that it is in the works.

…. asks Vijayalaxmi in The Telegraph newspaper.

Excerpt:

Unfortunately, figures on the number of women who blog in India are simply not available. But anecdotal evidence suggests that women write about personal or social issues, unlike men who focus on work-related issues. For instance, there are more chances of a male IT engineer running a tech blog than his female counterpart doing so. Says Swaroop C.H., a software engineer who works at Yahoo! Bangalore, and runs a tech blog (http://swaroopch.info), “I don’t know of many tech blogs run by women. Neither do I know of women’s work blogs.

For the uninitiated, podcasting is like a radio show that you regularly subscribe to, the podcasting software that you use downloads the mp3s of the show for you so that you can listen to it whenever/wherever you like. The difference is that anybody can start a radio show and anybody can subscribe. That’s right, just like blogs.

I updated iTunes to 4.9 to get the latest podcast subscriptions feature. There was also a software update for the iPod player for podcasting as well.

The first thing I did was click on this tab called ‘Podcasting’ and in the ‘Podcast directory’, it shows a iTunes Store-like interface for podcasts. I subscribed to Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code with a single click and it was downloaded and ready for listening in iTunes. To have even more fun, I connected my iPod and it was updated to have a Podcasts menu.

On the way to work today, I was listening to the 200th episode of the Daily Source Code, recorded live at Gnomedex(1). It was fun… no wonder podcasting has become such a rage. And yes, I did pay attention to traffic.

I wish NDTV or Tehelka had a regular podcast that I could listen to on a daily basis. Now, that would be cutting-edge…

P.S. iPodder is another great podcast receiver software. It works on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

(1) still have to find out what that conference was all about…

Interestingly, Sriram just made the 1,000th comment on my blog.

Btw, Sriram joined Microsoft last month (in Hyderabad) as a PM in the DevTools team.

To Sriram : blogs.msdn.com/sriramk doesn’t seem to be taken yet

I’ll soon be getting an autographed copy of ‘Armies of Hanuman’ from Ashok Banker! Woohoo!

That book isn’t in available in India yet

P.S. I’ll write about the other 81 reasons later…

Some of my friends, who are uninitiated to the blogosphere, know that I write a ‘blog’ but they still don’t get what it really means.

I’ve achieved some success by helping them understand how to use Firefox Live Bookmarks but I am sure there must be a lot of intro articles on blogs. I just can’t find any that are simple enough.