In an effort to make podcasting more social, Yahoo! has integrated a 5 star rating system into their Yahoo! Podcasts search engine.
We love badges! Not only are they oh-so-web 2.0 and cool-looking, but hey, they make it easy to do stuff. The podcast ratings badge makes it easy for your audience to rate your podcast [...]

Good news for developers.  Yahoo!, owner of some great Web 2.0 companies, has released APIs for a group of their more popular apps.

 Yahoo! Photos API
Yahoo! Shopping APIs
Yahoo! Calendar API
MyWeb 2.0 API (via)

As someone trying to complete a podcasting project, I’d sure like to see the Yahoo! Podcast API.  If anyone hears anything [...]

Anyone can syndicate an RSS feed.  Most times that is great for your company’s visibility, however, you don’t want someone taking your textual or audio/video content and using it without your benefiting from their use.
For instance, recently there has been an increase in RSS hijacking, most notably in podcasts because many podcasters forget to repeat [...]

A disturbing trend early podcasters are finding is that some enterprising individuals are setting up sites to steal the RSS feed of podcasts to add content to their own site.   While this doesn’t  remove the feed from your own site or prohibit your use of the feed, if you try to submit it to a [...]