Welcome to episode 3 of the Zune Insider Podcast! This episode was recorded in conference room 1430 in the Zune building on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Topics covered this week include: New TV Show and Podcast releases in Zune Marketplace, Guest interview of Javier Farfan, who is a Zune Senior. Manager of Product Marketing, focusing on reaching our Hispanic audience, he will discuss what Zune is doing in Latin culture and why Zune is making a big investment in Latin / Hispanic culture and...

Last week a few folks from the Zune team went down to Las Vegas for the New Media Expo . It’s the premiere event for new media content creators and podcasters, Zune was a top-level sponsor of the event. In addition to the both, we also organized a meetup at the Hilton, communicated through twitter, Zuneinsider.com and through word-of-mouth at the show. Thanks to everybody who came out! Paul Colligan has some very insightful and detailed recaps of the Expo if you're interested in the podcasting...

It has been great to see so much excitement online about our podcast support in the Zune Marketplace. The week of our Zune 2 launch, we sponsored the BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Las Vegas and Podcamp Arizona . This is just the beginning of the Zune podcaster community outreach that we are planning for 2008. The podcaster community really jumped on the “1-Click” subscription link process released a couple weeks ago and we now have another way podcast content producers can link to their content...

Podcasters can now plan to display a Zune icon or chicklet graphic on their websites to enable an easy “ 1-Click Podcast Subscription ” or offer a better link called a deep-link , if your podcast is already in the Zune Marketplace directory . To generate your Deep-Link to your podcast that you can place on your website or blog go here . Both of these link processes will launch the new Zune Marketplace software and the deep-link also check to see if you have the Zune software installed...