News & LinksAudiobooks are now available on Spotify in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. They'd launched in the US in SeptemberSpotify Updates NotificationsSpotify’s Anchor has added “audio enhancement” to its appSpotify has signed another exclusive: Anything Goes with Emma ChamberlainSpotify announced the expansion of NextGenDan Misener at Bumper has looked at the new topics that Apple Podcasts and he’s produced a number of network maps, designed to show links between different shows; and produced episode topic maps for every category in Apple PodcastsLibsyn has closed its free podcast hosting platform, Libsyn StudioZeitpedia is using Generative AI voices to produce audio news digests. Here’s an AI-generated podcast called World Cup 2022 News NowMatt Mullenweg (@photomatt) said “Come to @tumblr, we're adding activitypub for interconnect"Mastodon has just passed over 2 million active monthly users, a new record! If you add .rss to the end of someone’s account page - then you get an RSS feed. Find Fediverse accounts of your Twitter followers. https://fedifinder.glitch.meLeo Laporte is to retire from radio.Support the show Website: weekly.podnews.net Email: weekly@podnews.net Twitter: @jamescridland / @podnews and @samsethi / @samtalkstech Lightning/NOSTR: ⚡james@crid.land and ⚡sam@getalby.com Mastodon: @james@bne.social and @samsethi@podcastindex.social Support us: www.buzzsprout.com/1538779/support This podcast supports both transcripts and chapters, if your podcast app doesn’t then grab a new app from podnews.net/newpodcastapps