The Introduction
Being that this is my first post to the PodShow developer blog, let me take a second to introduce myself. My name is Chris McIntyre. You may know me from Podcast Alley, the site I developed and still maintain or you may know me from my profile at PodShow (ferf.podshow.com), either way I am excited to be working on the developer community with Andrew and Adam! I have been in the podcasting world since November of 2004 (almost 3 years now, holy cow) and am still loving the changes that podcasters are making in the world and in new media!
What I Do Here
I will be driving the PodShow developer community and have the following goals in mind:
- To help advance the proliferation of podcasting and new media to the world
- To work work along side developers to create cool stuff
- To promote great tools, code, applications and websites that promote podcasting
- To help podcasters find their audience and to engage them
- To make it easy for people to use & update PodShow content from outside the network
- To have fun!
PodShow set out to create a place where there were no barriers to entry for people who were creative and who wanted to get their audio and video work to the world. This is still our mission, and the developer network will continue down that path. Any way we can help people interact with their audience, to find a new audience, to create great content and to have fun doing it… we want to promote that here. With that said, let me recap what we do have already and what is coming up.
What We Have, and What’s Coming Up
- Podcast Publishing API - (documentation)
Many people don’t know it, but PodShow has an Authoring API that allows you to build applications and services that will publish podcast episodes and related details (title, keywords, descriptions, etc) to PodShow. There are already a few applications that work with it too including: Castblaster, Vidblaster, Ubercaster and Ecto.
- Module Creation SDK - (documentation)
This one is mostly complete, but not fully implemented yet. We provide an SDK where you can develop your own modules for profiles on the PodShow website. The SDK gives you everything you need to develop and test your modules. Submit them to us and once we review them we can release them for use on the PodShow site.
- Channel API (coming soon)
Since collecting and sharing content is such a cool feature on PodShow, this will be one of the next areas we focus on. If you have comments on how you think this should work, feel free to email me (info@podcastalley.com) and let me know!
- Lots of RSS & OPML Feeds
From the PodShow APIs page you can find links to lots of OPML and RSS feeds for Podcast Alley and the PodSafe Music Network. These feeds are updated all of the time and represent a good selection of content from those websites.
I guess that is a good start for now, so let me go ahead and rap this up 
I am excited to be working with you all and to getting a lot of cool new stuff going soon, with your help. As always, if you need help or have suggestions you can email me at developers@podshow.com.
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