Talking of interesting new online gubbins - back to the wonderful world of podcasting. And a company called BadFruit has launched an iTunes plug in which means users can access podcasts directly via their media player, a month ahead of an official iTunes re-release which will reportedly include podcasting capabilities. The plug in is called, of course, BadApple.
Rumours abound as to who is behind BadFruit, which some reckoning it might be Michael Robertson, the man behind the original MP3.com website. Speculation also as to why a company would go to the effort of launching such a plug in when the official version of iTunes will be getting the same functionality within weeks, especially when doing so might involve a certain level of iTunes hacking that could get Apple's legal team on your case.
BadFruit seem to justify their actions by suggesting that the bigger technology players will be very selective in what kind of podcasts their players will list. The company's FAQs page explains: "Podcasts are significant because they offer a wide-range of diverse topics and ideas, not just those endorsed by one company. BadApple gives you access to all podcasts, - even ones which Apple might disagree with and never list in iTunes software."