Podnews Weekly Review

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

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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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