Transistor
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- Nov 10:
Additionally, working with the industry, Podnews has drafted a Code of Practice for podcast migrations. Spreaker, RSS
.com, Transistor and RedCircle have all made commitments to follow the code. We'd be keen for more hosting companies to follow their lead: and to see a proper home for this work. - Nov 9: RSS feeds look ugly if you click them by mistake. And they're set to look even uglier, as XSLT is taken out of browsers. We've been warning about this for a while, and Chrome is now giving users a big red error message on the top of RSS feeds that use XSLT. A while ago, we suggested CSS as a partial replacement, and put something live in our RSS feed. The folks at Transistor took this as a challenge to see how far they could push RSS, and have produced a really nice looking CSS stylesheet to make RSS feeds look nicer to humans without changing how they work for podcast apps. Here's an example.
- Sep 17: Podcast host Transistor has added a new website template just for video podcasts. It's called, fittingly, Cinema.
- Aug 19: Transistor has added an MCP server, to allow you to connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants. Co-founder Justin Jackson has produced a video explaining how it works, with three demos - he suggests that Claude discovered that his podcast's numbers started increasing when he added a third co-host.
- Jul 10: The Sound Off Podcast this week has Justin Jackson, the co-founder of Transistor, on as a guest.
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