Schwartz Communications, a New England public relations agency, has introduced a new podcasting service. According to Schwartz, their offering provides quantifiable measurement of the podcast’s effectiveness as well as the ability to bundle podcasts into a comprehensive “Podbook”. All packages include the planning, pre-production, production, post-production and evaluation needed to produce and distribute an effective, […]

Real Estate Buzz Box has announced what it describes as “the first complete real estate podcasting solution online.” The new service is designed to let real estate agents create audio & video podcasts with no special technical skills.”Podcasting in the real estate industry is a really exciting development,” said site co-founder Rodney Rumford. “Realtors can […]

Company intranets need to add blogging and podcasting or else become irrelevant, according to a new report from Avenue A | Razorfish, an interactive marketing and technology services firm.”Employees today are expecting, and increasingly demanding, the same compelling web site experiences at work that they receive in their personal time,” said Shiv Singh, national director […]

Rocketboom, The Show and other daily news vlogs are getting some serious company, a daily news vlog from NBC.The Early Nightly is hosted Brian Williams, who has had a blog since May of 2005. The new vlog looks to be an attempt by NBC to tap into the growing audience for vlogs and video podcasts. […]

Apple’s Keynote 4 will get podcasting support in an upcoming update, according to Think Secret’s Ryan Katz. Keynote will gain support for exporting presentations to an iPod friendly format for presentations on the go, as well as podcasting. In addition, some level of iWeb integration through the Export command is said to be under development. […]

iPods are showing up everywhere, and this year’s NAMM convention, a meeting of musical gear manufacturers and retailers held in Austin, Texas July 14-16, was no exception. One of the more unusual iPod accessories shown was the iCoustic guitar. At first, glance, the iCoustic looks like a standard travel guitar. In fact, it’s built using […]

At the 2006 NAMM Summer Session, a meeting of musical gear manufacturers and retailers being held in Austin, Texas July 14-16, CAVS introduced a unique iPod dock/karaoke station. The CAVS IPS-11G Karaoke Station, is a turbo-charged iPod dock that does all the usual docking chores…..plus karaoke.

The New York Times Company’s International Herald Tribune (IHT) is beta-testing a service that lets users select articles to receive and have them automatically translated into a custom podcast. The service uses text-to-speech technology to convert news items into a podcast. “Articles are read by the latest text-to-speech technologies using professional readers whose recordings are […]

The latest episode of Xolo TV, a video blog, features an interview with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel recently introduced her own video podcast, Chancellor Angela Merkel – die Kanzlerin direkt. The interview , in German with subtitles, is a milestone for both the vlog and vlogging in general.

88SLIDE, a video podcast described as The Daily One Minute Trivia Challenge, is now available on all AMP’D mobile phones.Each day, host Rachel Rhodes takes viewers to an interesting location, asks a daily info-challenge trivia question and answers yesterday‚Äôs question. Viewers that answer the trivia question correctly have a chance to win an iTunes gift […]