Jason Calacanis, CEO of the blogging network Weblogs, Inc., thinks that Podshow raising another $15 million in venture capital means that the podcast bubble is here: Lest there be no question, we are now in a full-blown bubble. What on earth Podshow is going to do with almost $25M in funding is anyones guess, but […]

Podtrac today announced a GoDaddy.com podcast advertising campaign on French Maid TV, a video podcast described as “yet another excuse to take a few women, put them in lingerie, and have them bounce around.” The custom-produced episode features French Maids in a four-minute video podcast showing how to register a domain name with GoDaddy.com. “We […]

Audion Laboratories is demonstrating Podcast Station version 2.0 at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo 2006. Version 2.0 features include: The ability to record Skype calls on the KishKish.com Skype Answering Machine, (SAM), and with a right click export the file directly into Podcast Station for playback, editing and mixing into podcasts. (SAM Gold or […]

At the second annual Podcast and Portable Media Expo, being held at the Ontario Convention Center (above) Sept 29-30, Ron Moore, head writer and show runner for Battlestar Galactica, and creator of Battlestar Galactica podcast, gave the second keynote speech. Here are some highlights from his discussion: Galactica’s podcast pilot project was initially referred to […]

The second annual Podcast and Portable Media Expo, being held at the Ontario Convention Center (above) Sept 29-30, is getting underway with keynotes by podcaster and author Leo Laporte, host of TWiT.tv, and Ron Moore, Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica. Leo Laporte is kicking things off with a discussion of important issues facing podcasting as […]

The Podcast and Portable Media Expo, being held Sept 29-30 in Ontario, CA opens today. “We’ve been planning this event for nearly a year,” said event organizer Tim Bourquin. “It’s like a bobsled – you start pushing it downhill, and, after awhile, it picks up momentum and speeds on its own.” Bourquin recently described highlights […]

Mark Chally, creator of the PodPod acrylic portable device stand (above), is one of the companies and individuals that Apple has contacted regarding marketing products using the term “pod”. Here’s his take on the “pod” trademark issue: Apple claims there may be “confusion” between the iPod and PodPod marks. I consider this claim absurd. No […]

PodShow, a startup podcasting network co-founded by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, reportedly is getting an additional $15 million venture capital investment. According to Thomson Financial: PodShow inc., which recently raised $15 million in Series B funding. This follows up on an $8.85 million Series A deal from last summer, from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, […]

Digg dudes Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose, along with David Prager (TechTV, G4), Dan Huard, and Ron Gorodetzky, dig doing downloadable video so much that they’ve created a new media company, Revision3, to do it. According to the company, “Revision3 is the first media company that gets it, born from the Internet, on-demand generation. Unlike […]

Persian businesswoman Anousheh Ansari, co-founder and Chairman of Prodea Systems and the first female space tourist, has been blogging and even vlogging about her experiences in space. Her posts range from the trivial to the profound. Some of the most interesting insights she’s provided have been descriptions of how space explorers do tasks we take […]