It’s a bit difficult to categorize Mediafly in a nice little box, but here goes:   Mediafly provides a free service to manage personalized digital audio and video content.  What is interesting is that Mediafly’s service is is device-agnostic.   You can use Mediafly on an iPhone/iPod, Chumby, Zune, RSS Reader, or a host of other devices — which makes their offering unique for anyone who wants to access an audio or video podcast through a variety of consumer products.

After speaking with the company’s CEO, Carson Conant, to find out what makes Mediafly different from all the other content providers out today, it is safe to say that this company’s vision is to bring personalized media to all of your audio/video devices.

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Podcasting started around the time of the last election that George W. Bush won, in 2004.  Now it seems to still be growing, although at a much slower rate. Up until now, you needed a computer to download the podcasts; now maybe you don’t, thanks to the CastGrabber.

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I use my iPod/iPod Touch to listen to pocasts, mostly. I’ve got some music on them, but its mostly just podcasts. Its one of the ways I stay connected to the technology industry.

One of my favorite podcasts is C|Net’s Buzz Out Loud. They’ve got one of the best formula’s and crew out there, and honestly…it just works. I recently heard that Molly Wood, one of the show’s three co-hosts, will be moving on to other C|Net related duties.  Says Molly in her post to the BOL Lounge,

It seems like everybody already knows this, but I felt like I owed this community a longer explanation of what’s happening with Buzz Out Loud. The official “news” is that I am moving from a daily host of BOL to a once-a-week host, probably on Mondays. I will, of course, be available to the crew whenever they need a fill-in, but the fabulous and wonderful Natali Del Conte will be taking over my daily-host duties.

I am both happy and sad at this point. Molly’s personality, sense of humor and outlook added a unique quality to Buzz Out Loud that I think everyone will miss.  The combination of her, Tom Merritt, and Jason Howell created a unique dynamic that is going to be difficult if not impossible to reproduce.   

However, I am certain that Natali Del Conte will do a great job; and I’m looking forward to her contribution to my favorite podcast.

Goodbye, Molly.  We’ll miss you Tuesday through Friday.  Welcome, Natali!  We can’t wait to hear what you have to say!

If you couldn’t make the JustAnotherIphoneBlog.Com chat last night, here’s a link to the recorded session where you can listen to all 30 minutes via the web or podcast. Judie provided moderation and opening comments while Patrick, Dan and Brandon from JustAnotheriPhoneBlog gave an update on the week’s coolest iPhone news and applications. This week’s pace moved right along and there was lots of good stuff covered including weekly iPhone news of note, interesting third party applications like Hahlo3 (Twitter client for iPhones that aren’t jailbroken), Moleskine and Evernote for iPhone plus some general Q&A. These chats happen every Monday at 11pm EST – and last for 30 minutes, so if you missed this one – listen to the recording online and set yourself a reminder to visit next Monday 5/12/08.

Link: JustAnotherIphoneBlog – iPhone Chat – 5/5/08

A couple of weeks ago, Patrick (from JAMM and JAiPB) asked if I would like to take part in a new podcast with him and Dan. I said “sure,” and then busily kept doing my thing (and almost forgot about it)…until today. Patrick IM’d me earlier this afternoon to say that we were doing a test run at 10pm, and we doing the real thing on Monday at 10.

So I tuned in at 10, fully expecting it to be a sound check with a few “fake” guests calling in to test the system; we would gab for a minute, then do the real thing on Monday. Well, a few minutes turned into almost two hours, but in the meantime we managed to have a lot of fun amidst technical difficulties – all the while completely resisting Patrick’s attempts to keep us somewhat on topic.

I had no idea tonight’s show would be recorded and kept, but it was. It’s pretty rough, pretty silly in parts, and yeah – we are all rank amateurs. But you know what? We had fun. So if you would like to hear the chat, you can. And if you would like to take part in the “real” live chat on Monday, you are very welcome to attend. And yes, as always, I know I sound like a dork.

Read on for a post I ripped from JAiB, where Patrick explains it all…

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Today’s Open Source Podcast of the Week is no longer in production, but for newbie users it will still be a invaluable resource.  I am talking about none other than The Linux Link Tech Show’s guest this week, Chess Griffin and the Linux Reality Podcast.

Image Courtesy Chess Griffin

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Long about the same time I discovered the Linux Link Tech Show, I found Lugradio, which is this week’s Open Source podcast of the week.

Hailing from the UK, specifically Wolverhampton, Lugradio was started by members of the Wolverhampton Linux User Group many years ago. The original presenters of the show were Jono Bacon, Matthew Revell, Stuart “Aq” Langridge and Stephen Parkes. The current show hosts are Jono Bacon – the only host who has been on every season of Lugradio, Aq, Chris Proctor and Adam Sweet.

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I am going to start a series of posts here on Gear Diary to let people know about the great Linux and Open Technology podcasts or shows in the podosphere where you can get some great info and also learn more about Free Open Source Software. So if you have any shows I should check out, let me know and if I haven’t listened to them, I will give them a shot.

The first Podcast/Show of the week is a favorite I have listened to since the last Presidential Election. That would be, The Linux Link Tech Show.

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