Comments on: RSS with images: picture podcasting

By: Zaza Cartoons RSS feed (screenscraped from www.standaard.be)

Zaza Cartoons RSS feed (screenscraped from www.standaard.be) — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:06:47 +0000

[...] (BTW: I followed Peter Forret’s suggestion for image enclosures .) [...]

By: Dithermaster

Dithermaster — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:40:27 +0000

RSS2 feeds with image enclosures work great with Sony PSP Media Manager software:

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/Products/ShowProduct.asp?PID=995

For feeds you subscribe to, new items automatically get put on your PSP for later viewing.

Flickr supports enclosure tags as well, their syntax is explained here:

http://www.flickr.com/services/feeds/

There are also some web comics with RSS2+enclosure feeds; see TapestryComics.com

///d@

By: Yuri

Yuri — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:17:00 +0000

Ian, great idea! I was playing with image RSS and created a feed from my site: http://www.vorontsov.nl/rss.php

I tried both enclosure and description tag but although feed validator okays the code none of RSS readers I tried (including the newest GMail RSS reader) display images correctly. Any ideas?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:15:00 +0000

Hello
For pictures podcasting you can use Mirpod Player a Virtual iPod.
http://www.mirpod.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:57:00 +0000

you can do an mp3 feed by adding /podcast.aspx to the end of your textamerica URL

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:19:00 +0000

iPodderX has had this capability since it was first introduced. Photos are exported to iPhoto in nice, neat little folders. Flickr feeds are a perfect use here, as you can subscribe to a friend's photo feed and receive everything they post.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:55:00 +0000

Actually, the feed you create is not a photo RSS feed: it’s just a feed where the content of the posts contains images.
This original feed http://kidvibe.textamerica.com/rss.aspx does not contain ‘linked-to’ images (see Feedburner site for details), so the burned feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobbMontgomery does not provide image enclosures. I don’t know what you mean with ‘it works fine’, but if an aggregator (like iTunes) does not do anything with the images, that’s only normal.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 12:49:00 +0000

I just set up a free ‘Mo-Blog’ or photo blog on TextAmerica.

http://kidvibe.textamerica.com/

I ran the default RSS through Feedburner and it works great in NNW and other readers but not iTunes.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobbMontgomery

Perhaps because iTunes uses custom tagging scheme?

http://phobos.apple.com/static/podcast_specifications.pdf

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:52:00 +0000

Feedburner is a company that listens to its users:
ImageCast, by Matt Shobe
Inspired by Peter Forret’s recent post on the idea of “Picture Podcasting,” we’ve enhanced our popular SmartCast service beyond audio and video enclosures. You can now use SmartCast to create feed “enclosure” elements that point to image content (GIF/JPEG/PNG). Just check a new box in the SmartCast service setup and FeedBurner will create enclosures from certain links to image content in your postings.
from burningdoor.com

Expect a follow-up post to this topic soon!

By: Michael Meiser

Michael Meiser — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 10:04:00 +0000

Ian, great post. Right on the money. You got te vision dude. So Feedburner got up on it to. You’ve got to love those guys. They’re innovators through and through and they actually listen to their market closely. I can’t believe I haven’t seen your blog before. I’m just going through it now.

BTW, that picture stuff from the Andreas post, it’s good to see you caught that, that was at the begining of the media-RSS spec conversation. I’m happy to see the evoltution from ideas to execution being played out.

-Mike of mmeiser.com/blog/

By: jan

jan — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:16:00 +0000

Great idea, that picturePodCasting. I’ve been wondering about that myself, but your entry says it all. Now, maybe Apple should implement this in iPhoto or something?