Chapter 6Podcast Hosting Sites

Apple’s iTunes is the granddaddy of the podcasting universe, and with good reason. Millions of people interact with iTunes on a daily basis and get news, podcasts, videocasts, TV shows, and music from the application. In the month between April 2006 and May 2006 alone, more than 8.1 million iPods were sold worldwide.

Getting Started with iTunes

If you know nothing about iTunes at this point, it would be helpful to go to the iTunes site to download the iTunes interface. (See Figure 6.1.)

Figure 6.1 The iTunes interface.

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You simply choose your operating system (Windows 2000 or XP or Mac) and enter your e-mail address ...

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