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iPodder, P2P, Group Sharing, iTunes: A new generation of start-ups are allowing Net radio listeners to draw their programming at will from one another's hard drives

Published on March 4, 2005 By joeKnowledge In Websites

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It looks like Apple is starting a revolution in self service. With the idea of iPodding (doesn't really relate to iPod) of which is to subscribe to an RSS feed that links to audio files, now takes talk radio to a new level. Listen to it when you want, where you want; much like TiVo except it is portable.

Now, P2P is (so far legally) creating a way to share your music to the world by broadcasting it.

Take a ook at these sites and see what they are talking about:
mercora
live365.com
grouper

I like Groupers idea the best because your streaming files and you can share other file types. Now I wonder if this can be added to Blog Navigator??? Talk about being able to achive data and being able to share it from html files of saved websites to sharing your playlist on-line and then BLOG ABOUT IT Neat!

SOURCE: CNET News.com

Start-ups blur lines between radio, music swapping

Published: March 4, 2005, 4:00 AM PST By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com

A new generation of start-ups is taking a page from Apple Computer's iTunes playbook, allowing Net radio listeners to draw their programming at will from one another's hard drives.

At the head of a movement that could transform online radio, Live365 and start-up Grouper are the latest to blur these lines between Internet radio and online song-swapping, with an alliance aimed at turning the older companies' stable of amateur broadcasters into the hubs of peer-to-peer communities.

The model looks to Apple's iTunes software, which lets people on the same network, such as in a dorm or office building, listen to songs from one another's music collections. Grouper's peer-to-peer service lets people stream songs at will to one another over the open Internet

The company's alliance with Live365 is helping extend an advanced vision of Net radio already being pioneered by Mercora, another peer-to-peer radio service. By letting groups of listeners tap into one another's music collections, the companies hope to come close to providing on-demand radio services, while abiding by the strict legal rules governing online broadcasting.

"It wasn't first thing on our mind, but we saw a way to enable the relationships between audiences and broadcasters to go beyond just the broadcast stations," said Grouper CEO Josh Felser.

The Live365 deal and others like it are signs that the Net radio business....

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