gPodder makes a nice podcast app. And we're now really getting a fully finger-friendly UI and fast processing in the latest development version. Two things:

* I'd like to keep things separate (Micro-blogging, RSS-News and podcasts) - have many apps that do one thing but do it well
* Have a home screen "new stuff" type of applet that is provided on the tablet by Nokia and that we (the app developers) can "plug in to" and provide items that need the users attention (new podcast episode available, unread text, reply on Twitter, new mail, download finished, new chat messages, changed websites, etc..)

For example, I can imagine having different "severity" levels (rss news might be less urgent than a (personal) reply on twitter) and providing types such as an image/icon, a title and a short description. Maybe have different display styles for different content types. Research a bit, then come up with a nice "new stuff" applet and provide a unified API for it that can then also be used in GNOME on the Linux Desktop.