またまた気になるアップルさんの特許の話題が出てまいりました。
　ポッドキャストを地図や他のメディアと連携しようとしているそうな。

Having put podcasts on the map with its iPod and iTunes combination, Apple now wants to put maps in podcasts.

An Apple patent application published on Thursday describes "podmaps," a method for delivering maps and other media files that are associated with a podcast.

The patent application, "Creation, Management and Delivery of Map-based Media Items," envisions a variety of scenarios, such as taking map directions and converting them from text to speech, then serving the audio file of directions with a map as a podcast.

　後でもう少し詳しく読んで見ることにしようっと。何やら思ったよりダイナミックな事が書いてあるなぁ。。。