Yahoo! Podcasts !!!

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We're live! After many weeks of almost no sleep, and some nights without any at all, we launched!

I sent out a bunch of emails to podcasters, influencers, early adopters, industry folks, etc last night. In most of them I had to be what can be best termed "cautiously enthusiastic". But on my own blog I can be a bit more real.

YEAH!! WE LAUNCHED! HURRAY!

I'm definitely proud of this product. There are plenty of things we have yet to do that are going to be really cool, and there are some bugs (but I'm not saying what), but it's awesome. And my team, which is split across California and India, has been great. They really put in a hard effort for many month sustained. I think the product shows the effort.

The press has been really cool. I've launched a lot of products, but none quite so cutting-edge and none this uniformly well-received. We've had over 5000 blog posts in the last 12 hours, including comments from:

• Dave Winer (first blogger?, and inventor of RSS)
• Andrew Scoble (technology evangelist at MSFT)
• Ian Rogers (Part of original Win-Amp team, current Yahoo!)
• Chris Pirllo (Podcaster extraordinaire - quotes me)
  
• SolutionWatch (cool post)
• TechCrunch (another cool post)

We also had John Furrier, well-known podcaster, do an exclusive interview with Geoff Ralston, our Chief Product Officer (to whom I ultimately report).

And we were also featured in these well-known media outlets.

• AP Story (featured almost everywhere)
  
• Wall Street Journal (costs $)

YEAH!