Howard Lindzon, the creator of the “Wall Strip” video podcast (“stock culture meets pop culture”), was interviewed by Expo organizer Tim Bourquin as the opening session for the 2007 Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario, California. Lindzon parlayed his background in the financial industry, and some financial backing ($600,000), and overlooked his own lack […]

Podcasters and new media types from throughout the United States and around the world are converging on Ontario, California, for this weekend’s Podcast and New Media Expo. For those who arrive a little early, and aren’t otherwise tied up with Podcast Academy or preparations for presenting or exhibiting at the Expo, the local members of […]

At the risk of sounding like we’ve become the Podango blog* this week (“all Podango, all the time“), they’ve made Podcasting News again today. The online video/audio network company today announced that MommyCast, a popular parenting and family life podcast series, has launched the MommyCast and Friends Family Channel at Podango as part of an […]

Event organizers and attendees alike are making final preparationsfor the third annual Portable Media Expo, now with the updated name Podcast and New Media Expo. We caught up with event organizer Tim Bourquin earlier today to ask about his expectations for the Expo: Elisabeth McLaury Lewin: How will the event be different this year from […]

Russell Holliman, Founder and CEO of Podcast Ready, tells us his company has just signed a distribution deal with consumer electronics manufacturer Coby that he expects will ship 5-10 million mp3-player/ podcatching devices over the next 12 months, starting with the fourth quarter of this year. By Holliman’s reckoning, “that brings the total projected to […]

Fusa Capital, a media company that owns and operates a network of search engine websites, has launched the latest entrant into the podcast search engine and directory melee, Podanza.com. Podanza bills itself as a podcast search engine and directory which aggregates free audio and video podcasts from over 5,000 international producers. When searching for podcasts, […]

GCap Media, operators of radio stations such as Capital Radio, Xfm and Classic FM recently announced that it has joined UK Podcasters Association. This move is seen as a big step toward radio industry integration with digital and online media. GCap is the first radio/media company to join the UKPA since the association’s creation in […]

Some forty years after it first revolutionized children’s television programming, Sesame Workshop (the makers of public tv’s Sesame Street) has announced the launch of a video podcast series. The short weekly episodes focus on a single “word on the street” (literally, a word chalked onto blacktop). The recent podcast about squid featured grown-ups and children […]

Massachusetts (USA)-based Revolabs, Inc., a maker of wireless audio equipment, has introduced its new xTag Microphone System. Revolabs is promoting the microphone system for use with a wide variety of applications, including VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), podcasting, voice recognition, web conferencing, panel discussions and lectures, and many more desktop applications. The manufacturer touts the […]

The Pittsburgh (PA) Tribune-Review reports that Wizzard Software Inc. “entered into an agreement with four institutional investors for $7.5 million in equity financing.” Wizzard has, in the past year, acquired three podcast-hosting networks, Switchpod, Blast Podcast and Liberated Syndication (Libsyn). This new batch of financing follows a $1.75 million investment announced last October. That earlier […]