Podcasting

DivShare Promises Free File Hosting Forever

Dec 29th, 2006 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting Services

Diversion Web Publishing has introduced a new site, DivShare, that promises to let you upload anything and share it to the Internet forever. “DivShare is a free file hosting service for everyone,” according to the site. “No registration required!” The only catch is that, at some point in time, DivShare will have to come up […]



The Worst Vlogs Of 2006

Dec 29th, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Podcast Quickies, Strange, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

10 Zen Monkeys has published their take on the 10 Worst Vlogs of 2006. While we don’t agree with all their choices, it would be hard to beat their #1 pick – the accurately named Dogs Barking in Cars vlog. “Behold the future of multimedia,” writes 10 Zen Monkey’s Lou Cabron. “It‚Äôs a terrible idea […]



Alligator PSP Podcast Software

Dec 28th, 2006 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Software, Video Podcasts

Added to Podcast software index: Alligator lets PSP users check and download the newest podcast content using iTunes and RSS feeds. Alligator is RSS aggregation software for video and audio podcasting on the Sony PSP. Alligator also enables playback of many digital video and audio file types on the PSP, including MP3/MOV/MP4/WMA/WMV. With Alligator for […]



John Edwards Announces Candidacy With Podcast, Video Podcast

Dec 28th, 2006 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Citizen Media, Podcasting Events, Video Podcasts

John Edwards plans to announce his presidential intentions to the world today in New Orleans. But today’s news is old news to fans of podcasts. Edwards recently announced his intentions in the John Edwards audio podcast. Listen carefully, and you’ll hear Podcast411’s Rob Walch doing the intro. Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron has also posted a video […]



The Next President Will Be A Podcaster

Dec 27th, 2006 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Citizen Media, Podcasting Events, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Podtech’s Robert Scoble is on his way to New Orleans to cover John Edward’s Thursday announcement that he will be running for President. The Edwards event is significant, not only for Edward’s announcement, but for Edward’s understanding of the increasing importance of Internet media. Edwards is arguably the most Net-savvy of likely candidates. He has […]



Will HDTV Kill Network Television?

Dec 26th, 2006 | By | Category: Digital Video Downloads, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Entrepreneur Mark Cuban, Chairman of HDNet, thinks that HDTV is a Internet video killer: HDTV is the Internet video killer. Deal with it. Internet bandwidth to the home places a cap on the quality and simplicity of video delivery to the home, and to HDTVs in particular. Not only does internet capacity create an issue, […]



Rocketboom Founder On His New Studio

Dec 26th, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Corporate Podcasts, Digital Video Downloads, General, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron hopes that his new video podcasting studio will be less about advertising and more about creating interesting shows: Abby Corps is about enabling content creators by building community. When the emphasis is shifted towards supporting great quality content and the options for monetizing that content remain open to outside partnerships and […]



Santa Podcasting Again

Dec 24th, 2006 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Strange

Last year, we brought you the news that Santa was podcasting. Like a lot of podcasters, though, the man with the bag is very busy, and his show appeared to have podfaded shortly after the holidays. Now, it looks like Santa’s podcast is back from the dead. He’s posted several new episodes covering North Pole […]



New Digg Option Lets Podcasters Get More Traffic, Money

Dec 23rd, 2006 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Making Money with Podcasts

Digg has introduced a new option for podcasters that are concerned that Digg’s new Podcast section, introduced Monday, will steal their site traffic and ad revenue: Some of you podcasters have asked whether we can give better exposure to your own web sites on Digg‚Äôs pages. As you know, Digg lets you play audio and […]



Rocketboom Founder Plans Alternative To PodTech, PodShow

Dec 22nd, 2006 | By | Category: Citizen Media, Corporate Podcasts, General, Making Money with Podcasts, Video Podcasts, Vlogs

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has announced that he is partnering with Jeff Pulver to create a new video podcasting network, Abbey Corps. According to Baron, the new network will be a competitive alternative to Podshow and Podtech, two podcasting startups. “Jeff Pulver and I have co-founded a new studio network,” writes Baron at his blog […]