"I'm buying [five] so I can give three to my kids."

"[The nine I'm holding] are for all my friends back at the Expo who couldn't get over here."

"Look at the stuff I'm carrying in my pockets here... I'm replacing my USB flash drive with one of these. ...it will store audiobooks, music, whatever."

- Comments from customers at Apple Computer's San Francisco retail store, January 11, 2005.

"Someone bought 24 of them."

- Apple spokesman, speaking to iPodlounge on Macworld Expo floor.

Welcome to the iPod shuffle. It's Apple's first $99 iPod, and also the first to lack a screen, wheel controller, hard drive, and 1,000-song storage capacity - a product that doesn't entirely make sense until you realize that until today, the market for competing flash memory-based music players was based on diverse consumer motivations, low price points, and desired simplicity. Thanks to Apple's entry, that low-end market is about to change in a dramatic way. [Read More!]

By Daniel Terdiman

With the success of podcasting -- a recent technology that lets anyone subscribe to and play back audio feeds on an iPod -- the natural next step is technology that can do the same with video.

First a podcasting primer: It works much the same way as syndication of content through RSS or Atom, except that instead of text from blogs or news sites, podcasting sends songs directly to iPods or other MP3 players."
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By Daniel Terdiman

"For anyone who loves listening to the wide variety of internet audio programming, but can't always listen to their favorite shows when they're scheduled or take the time to download them manually, help has arrived.

Known as podcasting, the technology is a new take on syndicated content feeds like RSS and Atom. But instead of pushing text from blogs and news sites to various content aggregators like FeedDemon and Bloglines, podcasting sends audio content directly to an iPod or other MP3 player."
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By Daniel Terdiman

In October, a Google search would have returned fewer than 6,000 results for "podcasting." Today, that number is 744,000, and it seems nearly that many podcasts are available.

Although he’s famous for having been an MTV VJ, Adam Curry is better known these days as one of the fathers of podcasting, a rapidly growing technology that allows anyone to subscribe to and automatically download audio content feeds to an MP3 player.
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