Updating your WordPress-based site to WordPress 2.6 may break your podcast. Users are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6. Here’s a typical message from the PodPress forum: I installed WordPress 2.6 (the full version, not the Release Candidate) today but am having problems […]

Last fall, Podtech‘s then VP Robert Scoble said “Reports of PodTech’s demise are bull####!” Now, VentureBeat reports that podcasting startup PodTech has been purchased by ViewPartner, a communications technology company.  PodTech sold for under half a million dollars, a fraction of the $7.5 million invested in the company. PodTech struggled from the beginning to find […]

Podcasting site Odeo has relaunched. Again. We have kind of lost count, but Beta News says that this is Odeo’s sixth launch. Initially launched mid-2005, Odeo debuts (again) with a number of new features. The biggest addition to the site is video, but other new capabilities allow users to: — Search & explore over 500,000 […]

BlogHer, the online community (and conference) for women bloggers, has entered a strategic partnership with iVillage, a subsidiary of NBC Universal and a popular website toward female viewers/readers. The agreement provides iVillage access to BlogHer’s network of 2200 member blogs, and shared promotional and advertising opportunities across BlogHer’s audience. As part of the arrangement, NBCU […]

PodCamp Boston is coming up this weekend, July 19-20, 2008.

Unlike previous PodCamps, walk-in registrations cannot be accepted (building security needs a list of attendees). The deadline for registering for this weekend’s PodCamp Boston is noon (ET) Wednesday, July 16.

In advance of the upcoming conference, PodCamp co-founder and organizer Christopher Penn (creator and host of the Financial Aid Podcast) took some time out to answer questions about the event.

RawVoice CEO Todd Cochrane got in touch with us a few days ago to alert us to this week’s launch of a new podcast publishing and hosting system via the Blubrry podcast network. Blubrry Podcast Publishing with Hosting is an integrated solution that combines podcast statistics, media hosting, and promotional tools to “grow and support […]

Google announced today that it had reached an agreement with Viacom that will avoid a media debacle over YouTube users privacy: As we let you know on July 4, YouTube received a court order to produce viewing history data. We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original […]

Matt Mullenweg has announced WordPress 2.6, the latest update to the popular blogging & podcasting platform. Five Hot Changes In WordPress 2. Press This! is back– this popular feature disappeared in an earlier update to WordPress, but is back with a vengeance. Inspired by Flock, FriendFeed, Facebook, Tumblr, and Delicious, and the Quick Post plugin […]

Internet TV is growing at an insane rate. According to comScore, U.S. Internet users viewed more than 12 billion online videos during the month, up 45 percent versus year ago. Nearly 142 million U.S. Internet users watched an average of 85 videos per viewer in May. Google Sites (mainly YouTube) attracted the most viewers (83.8 […]

In this video, Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose of Diggnation do a demo for Microsoft’s Zune digital media player. Yeah – it’s an informercial. What makes it interesting, though, is that Microsoft is turning to video podcasters to help get the Zune some geek cred. This wouldn’t work with all products, and this sort of […]