When I found the new service for Pod2Mob late last year ( must of been November or December 2005 ) I thought this was quite an innovation. It’s a service that enables mobile phone users to listen to podcasts that were previously unavailable to this huge amount of users. Contrary to popular belief it’s actually quite tricky to do!

Pod2Mob : listen to your favourite podcasts using you mobile phone to stream it!

I checked it out to see what is was about and soon found that one of my favourite podcasts the Daily Source Code was not available in their directory. In order to be able to list it in my favourites for listening on my Nokia N70 with a 3G connection I added the Daily Source Code to the directory. I also thought it may help promote what Adam Curry was doing with Podcasting. I thought it would be a good way to get it popping up on Adam Curry’s radar, I was sure listenening to how receptive he seemed to be to any new ideas he would jump at this oppertunity to open up podcasts to a very large new audience…… 3 or 4 months later it gets there and it doesn’t look like he’s best pleased? I thought he was all for people promoting podcasting in new ways.

Does it not make sense to be creating a way for podcasters to reach out to potentially the largest audience out there? May be there can be a way for this to work for everybody? It would certainly be nice if podcasters could approve the advertising segment preceding their podcast or pay a yearly registration fee for delivery to mobile without the advertising. May be Pod2Mob could create a management system that enabled this. If they’re working on a business model that could give the budding podcast producer a revenue share on the advertising segment it could prove to be a fairly useful way to cover some of their costs.

Anyway, we now all know how the DSC got on Pod2Mob’s directory. OOOOPs!! Well, I suppose the issue had to be addressed sometime!