My weekend Web 2.0 cleanup yielded another service that apparently went belly up over the past six months. Mediafly still exists, but they are focusing their work on the Enterprise and not on the consumer. I wonder if they will go the way of Britekite due to this restructuring.

In any case, mediafly onair was a way to subscribe to your favorite podcasts using a web interface and then access that list on your device. Many services were supported including iOS, Android, Roku and Google TV. This, for me, solved the problem of knowing when a podcast had new episodes available without having toe check each podcast individually. Sure, you could use iTunes and sync, but at the time when I was testing this out, I did not have regular access to a computer for this function.

The nice thing about Mediafly is that it let me know when there were new shows. The bad thing was that (1) downloaded podcasts never went to the regular Music container area for iOS (so the Music app could not access these files). The files were stored in the Mediafly sandbox, so they could only be played with mediafly. This was a bit of a fail. (2) The second issue was that the headphone controls never worked for this app - so what ended up happening was that I needed to pull out my iPod everytime I needed to pause/play. If I forgot myself and tried to pause a podcast playing in Mediafly, iTunes would kick in - very annoying.

In any case, seems like mediafly just got out of that game - so...arrivederci it is then :-)