The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), an organization focused on creating advertising standards podcasts and Internet media, announced today the creation of a special advertising agency liaison to the organization, along with the confirmation of a fourteen-member Ad Council, made up of media professionals from leading interactive advertising agencies. The council will act as a […]

Libsyn has announced an update to it stats offering will be released on Monday. Addressed in this release: lack of updates for new files low numbers for past 9 months speed to load stats UI accuracy of data user agents list (zune, appleTV, iPhone, miro, etc added) real trending data over time.. per month/week/day downloads […]

The Citizen Media Law Project has published a free online legal guide. The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) is jointly affiliated with Harvard Law School‚Äôs Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center founded to “explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development,” and the Center for Citizen Media, an initiative […]

BlogTalkRadio today announced that it has updated its Cinch mobile podcasting service to let you use a custom podcast feed URL. Previously, your podcast feed URL was automatically set to your mobile phone number. When the service was introduced, we questioned the decision to embed your phone number in the feed url: I question a […]

UK mobile developers Coolgorilla have launched the London Travel Guide, a free travel guide specifically designed for iPods, iPhones and mobile phones. The London Travel Guide packs over 400 pages of info, along with interactive features, onto your portable media player. The guide is designed to be regularly updated, so you can have the most […]

Matt Mullenweg, the guy behind WordPress, announced today that he’s hired someone to develop social networking features for WordPress: Some of you may remember when I wrote about Chickspeak, a WordPress MU-based social network. Andy Peatling, the fellow behind it, later decided to recreate the work he had done as an Open Source effort he […]

Two thirds of all Americans are dissatisfied with the current state of journalism, and most now regard the Internet as their most important source of news, according to a new Zogby International survey. The survey also found that while most Americans (70%) think journalism is important to the quality of life in their communities, two […]

What does $4.5 million and the help of a superdope homeboy from the Oaktown get you these days? Not much, if the just-out-of-beta Dancejam is any indication. Dancejam is a YouTube clone that focuses on urban dance. The site lets you view videos of people doing various types of dance, rate the videos and upload […]

Content delivery network Limelight’s legal problems won’t affect PodShow, says PodShow founder and podcasting pioneer Adam Curry: We have spoken with LimeLight management and they have assured us they will not go ‚Äòdark‚Äô. They have been a good partner to us, we trust them and stand by their word and their excellent service. As with […]

Akamai Technologies, which provides technology for the distribution of digital media like podcasts, announced that a jury returned a verdict today in its lawsuit against Limelight Networks. The judgement found that Limelight was infringing on Akamai’s content delivery patent. As a result, the jury awarded Akamai a staggering $45,526,946 in damages, plus interest. The verdict, […]