{"id":133,"date":"2006-05-03T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/05\/podcast-ready-mp3-players.html"},"modified":"2006-05-03T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T12:11:00","slug":"podcast-ready-mp3-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/podcast-ready-mp3-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast-ready MP3 players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MobilBLU (now <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">there&#8217;s<\/span> a terrible company name for you!) says its new $130 MP3 player gets 150 hours of battery life and is preconfigured to download podcasts with one click, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=187002513\">this story in InformationWeek<\/a>. This the first device I&#8217;m aware of that was designed specifically for podcasts and I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll see more innovation in this area.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, the story quotes In-Stat research forecasting that digital audio player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webwire.com\/ViewPressRel.asp?SESSIONID=&amp;aId=13399\">sales will reach 286 million units in 2010<\/a>. If you do the math, that figures out to about one unit per U.S. resident. Hmmm. I dunno about that. Unless they&#8217;re giving away MP3 players in cereal boxes by then. But not everyone likes cereal&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MobilBLU (now there&#8217;s a terrible company name for you!) says its new $130 MP3 player gets 150 hours of battery life and is preconfigured to download podcasts with one click, according to this story in InformationWeek. This the first device &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/podcast-ready-mp3-players\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-29","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}