Spotify launches audiobooks globally. Anchor is still alive but Libsyn Studio is dead.

News & Links


Audiobooks are now available on Spotify in the UK, Ireland,
Australia and New Zealand. They'd launched in the US in
September

Spotify Updates Notifications

Spotify’s Anchor has added “audio enhancement” to its app

Spotify has signed another exclusive: Anything Goes with Emma
Chamberlain

Spotify announced the expansion of NextGen

Dan Misener at Bumper has looked at the new topics that Apple
Podcasts and
he’s produced a number of network maps, designed to show links
between different shows; and produced episode topic maps for
every category in Apple Podcasts

Libsyn has closed its free podcast hosting platform, Libsyn
Studio

Zeitpedia is using Generative AI voices to produce audio news
digests. Here’s an AI-generated podcast called World Cup 2022
News Now

Matt Mullenweg (@photomatt) said “Come to @tumblr, we're
adding activitypub for interconnect"

Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users,
a new record! If you add .rss to the end of someone’s account
page - then you get an RSS feed. 

Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followers.
https://fedifinder.glitch.me

Leo Laporte is to retire from radio.



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