The 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany, being held June 9th through July 9th, is proving to be a popular topic for podcasters.World Cup podcasts are being produced by news organizations, football (soccer) fans and even the Chancellor of Germany. The World Cup, the most important event in international football (soccer), brings together teams from member […]

Linked Media is a new UK company that hopes to provide “an interface between independent podcasters and emerging mainstream distribution channels.”The company plans to help mobile networks and other providers build relationships with, and acquire content from, independent podcast producers worldwide by providing a bridge between them. “Independent podcasters cannot compete with big business branding […]

Mark Ramsey, president of hear2.0, thinks that podcasting has a bad name, and thinks we should change the name to (drum roll)……………audiomag. “Podcast is, when you think about it, an absolutely horrible name for the technology,” writes Ramsey. “We don’t watch a TVcast, we watch a TV show. We don’t listen to a Radiocast, it’s […]

Vloggercon 2006, being held June 10-11 in San Francisco, has sold out. The conference is a two-day collection of roundtable discussions about the emergence and the future of vlogging.For those that can’t make it in person, the organizers promise video streaming of events on Saturday and Sunday, and the conference will be vlogged to death. […]

Que publishing has released Tricks of the Podcasting Masters by Mur Lafferty, producer of GeekFu Action Grip, and Rob Walch, host of podCast411, with a foreword by Senator John Edwards.The book is described as “the first podcasting book to focus on the Art of podcasting. It teaches people how to promote their podcast and grow […]

Added to the podcast directory list: The Pod Ship is a new podcast directory that describes itself as “The Intergalactic Podcast Directory.” The site features a topical podcast directory, articles, a message board and news.

XandMail, a digital communication solutions provider, has announced the availability of Mobile Podcast Solution, a carrier-grade solution which pushes podcast, video or any RSS feeds directly to a mobile phone. According to XandMail, their solution transforms any mobile phone into a RSS reader. It lets subscribers receive blog posts, listen to podcasts and view video […]

Hostway, a Web hosting service provider, today announced the release of a new podcast hosting service. Hostway’s podcasting offering has three levels of disk space up to 1500MB and plans that start at $2.95/month.”Hostway created this podcasting tool to ensure our customers businesses are fully equipped with all the current marketing tools,” said John Lee, […]

Coolgorilla has introduced its first iPod Translator, a German guide. The Translator has a user-friendly menu system to provide access of over 750 MP3s of German words and phrases. You simply select the phrase you require in English and play the German translation. “We are proud to be partnering with internet legends lastminute.com who have […]

Anystream has announced Apreso Podcast, an enterprise podcasting solution that lets institutions of higher education make any lecture, anywhere on campus, available for playback on Apple iPods, iTunes or any MP3 player. Available as a campus-wide license, Apreso Podcast lets universities offer lecture review by automating the many tasks required to capture, encode, manage and […]