Portland Social Media

SplashCast My Podcast Network

By Tim

Local internet startup SplashCast has announced a major new feature today called My Podcast Network. If you’re unfamiliar with SplashCast let me if you a quick overview: SplashCast is a website that allows you to create streaming media channels that you can embed almost everywhere. If you have a video of your son crawling around the living room and you want to show that to your friends on MySpace, just upload the video, add it to a channel (say, my son) and create a player in SplashCast. Then, just embed that in MySpace. Easy.

Now, with My Podcast Network you can collect and showcase your favorite podcasts right in the SplashCast player. The player will always be up to date and streaming fresh content from podcasts around the net. It’s a rather simple and easy way to aggregate the content you like and want others to see or hear. Include it on your blog or web page, remember these players can go almost anywhere.

Here’s an example: below is a small subset of podcasts I like to watch. To create this player, I simply logged into my SplashCast account, chose “Start Now” and immediately saw the new Podcasts & RSS option for creating a New Show. After clicking that, there’s an option to add the podcast via it’s RSS or, you can browse SplashCast’s Feed Directory - I found the directory was missing two of the podcasts I like to watch; Business Week Market Update and VH1’s Best Week Ever. Once you subscribe to the podcast just publish the show to a Channel; this is where a series of shows live. Then pick a player and copy the embed code to you website. Done! Here’s my Podcast Channel.

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