InfoCenter vs. iTunes: The Battle of the Podcatchers?

The battle of or for the podcatchers? Based on what this piece below is saying, Microsoft is attempting to bring “order” to the world of podcasting. Would more people subscribe to RSS feeds and podcasts if they were easier to capture and manage? That’s the perception of Marc Mercuri, an architect evangelist on the Microsoft developer and [...]

The battle of or for the podcatchers? Based on what this piece below is saying, Microsoft is attempting to bring “order” to the world of podcasting.

Would more people subscribe to RSS feeds and podcasts if they were easier to capture and manage?

That’s the perception of Marc Mercuri, an architect evangelist on the Microsoft developer and platform evangelism team, who has developed in his free time an information-aggregator he has coined Information Center, or InfoCenter.

Carl Franklin, the CEO of Pwop Productions, who has had a chance to see the product, described InfoCenter as “an RSS aggregator/podcast-enclosure downloader on steroids.”

Mercuri showed off a prototype of InfoCenter to a handful of individuals at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in June. In July, he unveiled InfoCenter to a broader group, via the “.Net Rocks” radio show. Mercuri is expecting to release for download the latest InfoCenter bits, complete with a newly redesigned interface, around August 9.

When asked whether he had discussed with any division at Microsoft the possibility of InfoCenter becoming a Microsoft-branded ware, Mercuri said that “there have been absolutely no talks about this becoming a product…. Source: Microsoft Watch

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