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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

A new company promises to be the first podcasting supergroup, bringing together two influential pioneers of podcasting, Doug Kaye (IT Conversations, The Conversations Network) and Michael Geoghegan, right, (Reel Reviews, Grape Radio, and the DisneyLand Podcast).During the Gnomedex 6.0 conference last weekend, Kaye announced the launch of GigaVox Media, Inc., a for-profit partner company of […]

A new site, Okay to Play, has launched that features “comparison charts which help podcasters make educated decisions regarding audio advertising sales companies, podsafe music, recording hardware, and more.”Currently, the site offers charts on podcast flash players, portable audio recorders, podcast advertising companies, and music providors. The site plans to add listener submitted reviews, editorial, […]

According to a recent survey, podcast usage among B2B technology buyers is significant and growing. 41% of survey respondents claim they have listened to podcasts on more than one occasion, while 13% stated that they ‚Äúfrequently‚Äù download or listen to them.The KnowledgeStorm and Universal McCann survey was completed by more than 3,900 business and IT […]

Former Senator John Breaux today announced the launch of a Ceasefire on Health Care podcast, designed to further spread the results of the Ceasefire on Health Care campaign. “Health care will be a pivotal issue in the 2006 midterm and 2008 presidential elections,” said Senator Breaux. “We want the podcast to avoid the partisanship and […]

Nielsen//NetRatings announced today that 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast. 4.0 percent, or 5.6 million Web users, have recently downloaded a video podcast. These figures put the podcasting population on a par with those who publish blogs, 4.8 percent, and online daters, […]

While it may not qualify as a milestone for podcasting, podcasts made the comics this week. The Non Sequitor comic for July 19th features podcasts…..as the punchline.