[Owncloud] podcatcher app

[kltrg]

Hi to all,

I don't have scientific data about how people in general are using newsreaders and podcatchers in comparison, but from my personal behaviour and from what I'v seen on other persons computers, I tend to believe that uses are so radically different that two separate apps are better. Yes, the two have a lot of (technical) stuff in common but from a users point of view, they are different use cases. Don't you think?

kltrg

Am 26.06.2012 00:38, schrieb Jan-Christoph Borchardt:
> Alessandro, Fred,
> 
> did you do some research on how people use newsreaders & podcasting
> apps, also contrasting the two?
> 
> Also please check out the current go-to apps for both: Google Reader,
> NewsBlur, Flipboard, Instacast, …
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
>> Hmm not sure.
>>
>> They are technically similar because they are both based on RSS but the workflow and the use-cases are completely different. At least for me.
>> So I wouldn´t mind two independent specialized applications.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>>
>>
>> On 25.06.2012, at 23:14, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Podcast app and newsreader should ideally be the same app, since
>>> podcasts are audio-blogs. Oftentimes people don’t bother to listen to
>>> the podcast if there are shownotes.
>>>
>>> But of course, if it’s a podcast, there should be stuff like embedded
>>> media player etc. The read it later / listen to it later function is
>>> the same for text as it is for audio.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Alessandro Cosentino
>>> <cosenal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Dear Fred,
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the interest in ownCloud.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, a podcatcher app for ownCloud is one of the future ideas. It's
>>>> already mentioned here: http://owncloud.org/dev/junior-jobs/
>>>> And I also mentioned it in my proposal, see
>>>> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/cosenal/1
>>>>
>>>> Right now I am thinking of just marking with an attachment-like icon
>>>> posts that contains an audio/video enclosure, such as podcasts.
>>>> It's hard to say yet in which part of the two apps (feed reader and
>>>> podcatcher) intersect, I would guess that definitely in the parsing
>>>> part. Moreover, I am not sure that the podcatcher should be a separate
>>>> app from the Music app.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I am cc'ing this answer and your email to the owncloud ml, so
>>>> that we avoid having people working independently on the same things.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Alessandro
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Fred Lutzer <m.kltrg at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Alessandro,
>>>>>
>>>>> I understand that you are working on an ownCloud RSS app. I'm really
>>>>> looking forward to using it.
>>>>> But there is another thing I'd really like to see in ownCloud and that
>>>>> is a podcatcher. I'm not too good a programmer but since it seems that
>>>>> nobody is working on it, I'm willing to start. Since feedreader and
>>>>> podcatcher are somehow related, I just wanted to ask for which parts
>>>>> we could team up to avoid doing the same work twice and which parts of
>>>>> your already done work I could perhaps recycle for a podcatcher app.
>>>>>
>>>>> As I mentioned, I haven't done programming for quite a while now and I
>>>>> don't know anything about the internal structure of ownCloud so far.
>>>>> I'm happy about all the help I can get. Thanks in advance!
>>>>>
>>>>> Bye,
>>>>>
>>>>> kltrg
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