Inside Mediafly.com (Tech Insights)

Show off your podcast on your website with Mediafly's "easy media" presentation technology (free)

PodcastPickle.com recently updated their feed pages to use Mediafly™ Presentation Engine™. You can see this technology in action on all PodcastPickle.com show pages, such as their display of This Week in Tech (one of my personal favorites). Mediafly is allowing partners to use this technology but will be releasing to the public soon. But you can get to it now if you want to try it out. It is about 4 lines of code and allows your to display any podcast on your website (i.e. make your own podcast look/function great or show off your favorite(s).

Here is how it would look:

Here is how to do it:

Here is an example snippet of code to render the podcast above. To get your personalized code to display any podcast you desire, visit www.mediafly.com/MyFeedWidgets.aspx

  <script type="text/javascript"> var mediaflyEmbeddedFeed = new Object(); mediaflyEmbeddedFeed.code = '4UtjbcvSKMMyJmSM'; _mediaflySource = 'mediafly-typepad'; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.mediafly.com/widgets/embedfeed.js"></script>

PodcastPickle gets a makeover (and some new features)

	PodcastPickle.com, one of the best resources for finding the top podcast, has partnered with Mediafly to provide improved access to the best podcasts in areas such as top 100 audio and video podcasts. PodcastPickle leverages the Mediafly™ Presentation Engine™ to find podcasts on PodcastPickle and quickly/easily add them to your Mediafly Channels for download & sync to your iPod/iPhone and most USB Players (e.g. sansa, creative zen, iriver, etc.) as well as Mediafly-enabled devices such as the revolutionary chumby.
We (Mediafly) will be making the Presentation Engine™ available to other publishers and bloggers in the next couple months.  If you want early (free) access email us at www.mediafly.com/contactus Now, find something great on PodcastPickle.com today. Here are a couple of my personal favorites: This Week in Tech Dan Carlin's Hardcore History NBC Today Show Enjoy! Carson

Get all your Podcasts on your iPhone OTA via Mediafly.com (even over Edge)

You can now get all of your podcasts over the air on your iPhone (yes -- even on Edge!).

It's easy. Here's how:

1. Create a free Mediafly.com account (if you don't already have one)
2. Select your podcasts and organize them into your channels
3. Visit mediafly.com/iphone on your iPhone and enjoy!

The Mediafly iPhone site is still in development but I figured I would post access so that you could play with it.  I use it on my drive in and the over the air (OTA) playing works great, even on edge.

If you are new to Mediafly... the Mediafly service (which is free) allows you to find and manage all of your podcasts in one place play, download, or sync to almost any device.

You can download and sync your podcasts to your desktop iTunes/iPhone/iPod as well as your Chumby and any MTP-enabled usb player, such as Sansa, Creative Zen, iRiver, and more...

We're still in beta and the iPhone app (as I mentioned) is still in testing. So, please send your thoughts and ideas to www.mediafly.com/contactus or post them here. We love to hear what you think.

Enjoy!
Carson

p.s. Here is a more detailed visual of the Mediafly iPhone experience...

Mediafly Syncs podcasts to ANY media player (almost)

If you use iTunes then podcasts are pretty easy. You can use the iTunes podcast manager. Or you can use Mediafly's SyncClient. 

But, what if you use a SanDisk, iRiver, Cowon, Creative Zen, Mobile Phone, etc.? Well.... Mediafly has the solution (of course I am biased as I work at Mediafly).

You can now manage all of your podcasts on Mediafly.com and then automatically sync your podcasts to any USB player -- or at least any player which supports Microsoft MTP (which most do).  The SyncClient copies files directly to your player without any action by you, bypassing any clunky software in the middle, such as Windows Media Player, Yahoo!, etc.  This new version is still in Beta (testing) but it is now available on the Medaifly SyncClient download page (You must select the Beta link)

How to download the Mediafly SyncClient Beta

1. Goto www.mediafly.com/syncclient (You must select the Beta link)
2. Create a free Mediafly account (if you do not already have one).
3. Select the beta download link which is located below the production SyncClient download button.
4. Follow the installation instructions and launch the Beta SyncClient
5. Attach your USB Player and it will automatically be detected and synced.  

How does it work?
It is pretty simple... The SyncClient runs in the background downloading your podcasts during the day while you work.  And, as soon as you plug your device in, the SyncClient adds all of your new podcasts and organizes them into playlists for easy access. And, almost as valuable, the SyncClient removes any expired files.

Tell me how it goes

We want to hear from you. If you have any thoughts, ideas, or trouble running the new SyncClient,  just email us at www.mediafly.com/contactus

Compete vs. Alexa

If you have not used Compete.com before, it is an interesting site to give user/visitor trends for your own website as well as competitors. I noticed it because TechCrunch often includes links and visuals from Compete when discussing site trends.

Compete is not as up to date as Alexa but it offers far more drill down options.