Archive for the 'Site News' Category

Here’s hoping love will save the day

Monday, February 4th, 2008

It’s been a frustrating few days behind the scenes here at Podiobooks.com. Last week, we were all excited about a new opportunity that should increase the reliability of downloads for listeners as well as increase the frequency which new episodes of books can be added. All good news, right?
Then we started getting word that many […]

Stalk our authors without getting arrested

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Many of you out there have discovered the magic of Twitter, the micro-blogging craze that asks a single question “What are you doing?” of it’s users. Of course, most of Twitter’s users completely ignore that questions and simply type out up to 140 characters worth of whatever is on their mind at the moment.
Some of […]

Problems accessing a file?

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

Yesterday, our media hosting company ran into some pretty serious delivery problems. It looks like the issue has been cleaned up, but we’re still seeing residual problems. If it happens, report it.
Speaking of that, this seems like a good time to introduce our new community-supported customer service site we’ve recently deployed. You’ll find it here:
http://podiobooks.getsatisfaction.com
Got […]

Authors and listeners get together in our Community section

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

For the last couple of weeks, many of you have been helping to kick the tires of a new Community section where authors and listeners can interact with one another.
I know what you are thinking: One more social network, and I’ll pluck my own eyes out. I get it. I really do. The big difference […]

Top Podiobooks of 2007 posted

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

We’ve just posted our 2007 Top Podiobooks list. I’d say this is an annual event for us, but it actually marks the first time we’ve done this. Next year, when things aren’t as crazy (yeah, right), we might actually do multiple lists. But for now, enjoy these and have a Happy New Year from all […]

Best Podiobooks of 2007

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

This year Podiobooks.com throws it’s hat into the ring of places offering up “Best Of” lists for 2007. Our crack bands of year end revelers examined all of the books marked as complete this calendar year, appling several high tech algorithms with all sorts of letters and Grecian symbols to figure out who to feature. […]

Techtalk — coding for directory support

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Warning! Heavy geek talk that many of you will not care about contained in this post…
We’ve done a litle re-deployment to come of our code to make things a bit more palatable for some podcasting directories. To be specific, we changed our default RSS feed generation code so that it’ kicks out a consistent <pubDate>. […]

Spreading the Podiobooks.com love just got easier

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Today I found a really cool site that makes it a breeze to share content you discover online to (right now) 34 social bookmarking sites. I showed it to Chris, and he was able to embed the code on each and every title page in a bout 3 seconds. He rawks!
I found the interface to […]

Electricity is COMPLETE!

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Myke Bartlett’s mystery tale, Electricity, finished up when he provided us the last episode on Halloween… and we forgot to tell you about it.
So sorry for the delay, and thanks to Myke for giving us another great book!

Be a friend of Podiobooks.com on Facebook

Friday, November 9th, 2007

A few days ago, Facebook announced that they would allow brands to create their own profile pages. Being a mixture of social media butterfly and cynical bastard, I set up a profile page for Podiobooks.com and told a few of my friends. They told their friends who in turn told their friends, and we’re already […]