Everybody's Talking

It hasn't been that long ago that "podcast" wasn't even a word, let along something that most of us listen to daily. Then in late 2004 and early 2005, podcasts started popping up and , thanks to to The New Oxford American Dictionary, "podcast" officially became an official word.

By early 2005, the number of estimated podcasts had grown to 3000-4000. In May 2005, Apple's Steve Jobs Jobs said there were more than 8000 podcasts, while others said there were upwards of 10,000. Clearly all of these numbers are guesses at best. No one knows how many podcasts there are out there. Still, the number (or guesses) keep growing. Podnova.com, a podcasting directory, currently tracks nearly 80,000 podcasts. So how many are really out there? My guess? A bunch.

Naturally we've been adding to the guestimates, with regular podcasts on a regular basis. Recent podcasts include:

• RadRails Ruby on Rails IDE: Part 1. Mike Riley interviews Kyle Shank, lead developer of the RadRails Ruby on Rails IDE. The goal of RadRails is to provide Rails developers with everything they need to develop, manage, test, and deploy their applications. The RadRails IDE is built on the Eclipse RCP. RadRails tools are also available as Eclipse plug-ins.

• RadRails and Podcasting: Part 2. Kyle Shank of RadRails talks about using podcasts to promote new releases of the RadRails IDE. He also compares his experiences at this years’ EclipseCon and Canada on Rails.

• Data Miniaturization: No Extraction Required. Mark Arman introduces Data Miniaturization technology, explaining how it differs from data compression and why it is well-suited to mobile devices.

• Loading Modules On-The-Fly With Smart Clients. Microsoft's Eugenio Pace continues expoloring the Composite UI App Block (CAB) modules and how the event system provided by Object Builder can allow teams to create rich, loosely coupled events for module communication.

• A Look at AJAX and Web 2.0. Dror Matalon discusses the AJAX standard, the differences between AJAX and Web 2.0, and AJAX development toolsets.

That's just for starters. For a complete list of our podcasts, check out the Dr. Dobb's Media Center.

Posted by Jon Erickson at 04:19 AM  Permalink