This is a value for value post: see the explanation in the footer.
Podcast Standards Project
"The Podcast Standards Project is a grassroots industry coalition dedicated to creating standards and practices that improve the open podcasting ecosystem for both listeners and creators."
As explained on their new website The Podcast Standards Project is a new industry body, established by the leading independent companies, organisations and individuals within the open podcasting industry.
Podcasting 2.0 and the PodcastIndex
For the last two years, open podcasting has received its first concerted push to develop and extend the underlying technology of podcasting in almost 20 years. Podcasting 2.0 spearheaded by Adam Curry and Dave Jones and with a wide supporting cast of technologists, app developers and other interested parties, has created more innovation in podcasting than anyone has seen since the beginning of its invention.
These innovations are too numerous to list but there's one which is currently built on the unique properties of Hive.
The Podcast RSS Standard
The new organisation has taken a very limited subset of all the new developments from Podcasting 2.0 and enshrined these as the first proposed definitions of what it means to adhere to Podcast Standards.
- Declare the "podcast" namespace in RSS feeds - this is the foundation of Podcasting 2.0's contributions to extending podcasting.
- Podping Support
Podping
Podping is a global message bus for podcast infrastructure events. Entities that publish feeds can "write" events into the system and those events are then visible to all parties who "watch" for them. Anyone can watch/monitor for events and respond appropriately, depending on their needs. It was developed as an alternative to WebSub and rssCloud which both have major drawbacks when it comes to podcasting infrastructure.
Podping sends alerts for up to around 2000 podcasts per hour.
Podping is on Hive
Podping's definitions and technical specifications are deliberately written to be platform independent. This is how we have done everything connected with Podcasting 2.0. Podcasting is an open protocol and we do nothing to change that.
But Podping does currently run on Hive and I for one can't see any competing technology platform with the same capabilities and secure future. The ongoing expenses of Podping are covered by the @podping account's HP holding (I went into the details of the costs of running Podping in this post).
What this means for Hive
Podping is one of those aspects of Hive which very few people know about. Even podcasters and podcast hosting companies who are using it, don't really know or understand how or why it works. It's an almost magical piece of Internet base protocol to them now.
At what point does anyone really get to know or understand what Hive is doing at the centre of the open podcasting world? I really don't know. And I really don't know how to communicate this astonishing technical achievement to a wider audience just yet. At some point the right press release will make an impact, but until then, Hive's secret success at the heart of open podcasting will remain a piece of inside knowledge that only a few people know about.
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