This is a company started by one of my batchmates at IIT Bombay – Gaurang Kanvinde. Proaxys Software has technology to convert ordinary XML feeds to mp3 – which they embed in a feed of their own.

So basically, they do auto-podcasting or podcastify their feed.

Take a hear at three partial feeds that I podcastified from Robert Scoble's website (my apologies).

For example http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/07/net-bcl-team-blogging/ is mapped to http://www.proaxsysreader.com/data/rss/2/1144521572771.mp3 . I liked the way their software recognizes ".NET" to be pronounced as "dot-Net"

Even more interesting is http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/04/07/daily-kos-crashes-microsofts-gate/ mapped to http://www.proaxsysreader.com/data/rss/2/1144521574796.mp3. It can pronounce "Tamara Pesik" and "Markos Moulitsas Zuniga". That has got to count for something!!!

To try it out yourself -

1. go to http://www.proaxsysreader.com/rss.jsp

2. Enter the feed url and your email address

3. Check your email to get the auto-generated passord

4. Go to http://www.proaxsysreader.com/myreader/index.jsp

5. sign in

6. Click on "my feeds" and listen (using a podcast compatible software)

EDIT: Gaurang has mailed and said that the link generation process for your feed has been greatly simplified – sounds quite cool too!!
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