Yahoo gives up on podcasting site
Yahoo! to Close Its Podcasting Site
Two years to the month after launching its large podcast search and listening site, Yahoo! has announced that Yahoo! Podcasts will cease operation on Halloween, October 31st. The site never came out of Beta before the plug was pulled. There’s not much information available beyond an underlined non-link now at the top of the site reading “Yahoo! apologizes deeply, but we will be closing down the Podcasts site on Oct. 31, 2007.”
This will break a bunch of links on the show notes to old Various and Sundry DVD podcasts. I used to carry the “Rate This Podcast” graphic there for Yahoo. No more.
And if Digg doesn’t do something more with their Podcast Beta, then I imagine it might cease to be eventually, too. That’s just wild speculation. They might just let it sit there and rot over time, though. We’ll see.