About a week ago I shot Mano @ Pixel Ink (my tech team) an email asking what it would take to get a flash player installed on each TPN site so non-technical folks can press a big PLAY button to stream out podcasts. I've had a few such people in the last few weeks tell me they spent an hour on the site and couldn't figure out how to listen to anything. I remember that feeling when I first discovered podcasting 18 months ago.
Last night, amongst everything else they are doing (upgrading all of the older TPN sites to the latest version of WordPress, building new sites, improving our Ad Server installation, writing scripts to automate our site build process, improving our security, etc), in their spare time they tested a flash player by putting it up on G'Day World. Take a look at it and give me some feedback! If it's as good as we think it is, we'll roll it out across all of the TPN sites.
Saw that, pretty cool.
One little suggest on the roll out. You might want to move the TPN Blog to the top of the list as in a way, its your flagship blog and one that should be pushed as the first to go to for new customers.
Just a thought.
Molly
Posted by: Mollyfud | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 10:15 AM
Looks great and streams well.
I like it.
Posted by: Roger | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 10:21 AM
Good stuff, works well.
The only suggestion I have is probably no biggie... it looks like the speaker graphic might be a volume control... but it isn't. Not that people actually need a volume control on the player, but it's common on things like Google video etc, so when I found my headphones blaring, I scrabbled around on it trying to turn it down.
Posted by: Daniel | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 10:32 AM
Really like this feature, but i think the button needs to be a little more, hmm, explained, ie it says ' listen live' or play i was looking for the button...for about a min and i knew it was there...
Posted by: wade | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 10:36 AM
"play the last podcast" in the sidebar... ;-)
Posted by: Ewan Spence | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 10:42 AM
Worked well on my iBook using OS 10.4.5 and Safari 2.03. Simple and understandable controls.
Posted by: Rod Adams | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 10:49 AM
Cam. Looks good, works well.
Posted by: Dave | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 12:08 PM
Nice. Just clicked it. Can you inform your fellow podcasters of where you got it?
Molly
Posted by: Mollyfud | Tuesday, March 21, 2006 at 12:20 PM
Works great. looks good. does the job!
Posted by: Aaron Heath | Wednesday, March 22, 2006 at 04:59 AM