I’ve been sitting on this one for a bit in draft mode because I wanted to see how many people would actually buy and use this and also if some of the early issues had been worked out. Branded iPodder clients can be created at the ipodder lemon store. Sure enough today I came across the first mainstream usage I’ve seen: and it’s for the upcoming Paris Hilton horror flick: House of Wax.

They have their own custom iPodder client and House of Wax podcast page (warning: sound!) with short updates from Paris Hilton. House of Wax (HOW) comes out this Friday, May 6, 2005. In fact, HOW didn’t stop with podcasts, they have wallpaper, buddy icons, screensavers via their download page, even a fan art page. Strangely, the fan art page is full red on Risk Rating according to my Netcraft toolbar, so might want to move carefully on the fan page.

As for Paris podcasting? Is it any good? Well, it seems to be an authenic podcast and not some over-engineered ad for the movie, which is a bright spot. You can catch two of her podcast ’shows’ where with the first one she’s whines a bit about having to do publicity for the movie. Huh? LOL, now that’s a new one … a podcast to promote the movie where the star whines about promoting the movie. Then later you can hear the freaks, er fans, in the crowd crying her name: Paris! Paris! We love you! In the second one she says: “Can we turn down the TV. It’s annoying.” She then wonders if it’s called Good Morning America, but she loves Diane Sawyer. Oh and she’s sooo tired again. She loves iPods, they are “hot.” Oh, and she was a little annoyed with David Letterman for asking about a “white-hot spat with Nicole Ritchie.” Then she gets prepped for an upcoming meeting and has a bagel with cream cheese (one of the few things I like about her).

I am soooo glad I don’t pay too much attention to Paris Hilton. Don’t see why some people go into dog in heat mode over her, really. She’s way too skinny, IMO. I never watched The Simple Life; and don’t think I’ll be doing so any time soon. With that said, I’m somewhat curious in this House of Wax movie if/when some bad guy will wack her character. You haven’t really arrived as a B grade actor until you’ve been wacked onscreen in a horror flick. Oh and nudity. Got to have some gratuitous nudity.

Seriously, it would be cool to see iPodder offer a customizable version like Effective Brand does with toolbars that could be dynamically updated by the person/company buying the branded client. I saw at the iPodder site that somebody else already made this comment. One time only packing of URLs sort of makes this not as useful.

Getting back to the beginning where I talked about issues. Check out the screenshot at the top where it shows DNS failure for the technology OPML category. This has been this way for a long time. If your podcast is listed in the technology category, good luck being seen reliably. Hopefully somebody else with a reliable server will take over that node.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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