Archive for the 'Podcasting' Category

Melodeo: Podcast to Mobile Phone

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

Mobilcast is a new free service that is about to be launched by Melodeo, in short, get podcasts on your cellphone:

There are nearly 400,000 Podcasts available today. But to hear them you need to connect your PC to the Internet, and your portable device to your PC. You need to repeat this process each time […]

Podcasting Gets Fundage

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

Well you have to admit, this is certainly interesting. Looks like the money is backing the podfather and company’s venture Podshow. $8.85 million to be exact.

Also, Odeo has secured some funds as well. Looks like things are starting to happen and people are certainly placing bets that podcasting will pay off in the future. […]

Pell On Odeo

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005

Dave Pell on Odeo:

“I know that it’s called podcasting and that suggests the use of an iPod, but my favorite thing about the well designed Odeo is that I can just press the play button right there on the web page….

…It’s about the content, not the container.”

Isn’t that the truth. I personally listen to more […]

Pogue on Podcasting

Saturday, July 30th, 2005

David Pogue, the technology reporter from the New York Times absolutely cracks me up. Check out this video where he attempts to explain podcasting and just how easy it is to join all of the podcasting goodness. Hilarious stuff.

per Rubel

Audio Content via Podscope

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005

Podscope is pretty cool. I read about it a little while ago when they first started indexing audio content on the web. Today I came across some interesting info on the engine:

“Podscope, a search engine that indexes the spoken audio content of podcasts, has announced that it plans to “cover all non-music audio and video […]

Evan On Odeo

Monday, July 25th, 2005

I was flipping through the current edition of Fast Company last night, I haven’t actually picked up a physical copy in a LONG time, (man did that magazine get smaller!). I found lots of good stuff in this months edition, including “60 Seconds with Evan Williams” co-founder of the recently launched Odeo. Here is a […]

Domain Pimping

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Just had to post about this, imagine just 8 months ago what someone would pay for it. The big question, how much WILL he get for it?

Podcaster Allan Hunkin is seeking $250,000 USD for the domain name podcasts.com. Hunkin is selling the domain to concentrate on his core business, SuccessTALK Channels.

He also hopes to sell […]

The Rise of Podcasting

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

Mark Kingdon, CEO of Organic, writes an interesting piece today for his ClickZ column titled “Changing Channels and the Rise of Podcasting.” He talks about how marketers are beginning to embrace the medium:

“The market is very, very new, but early-adopter advertisers are jumping in relatively quickly, testing a variety of formats and ideas.”

We have […]

Trend Radio#11: Pod Tech, Live 8, Vulgaria

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Trend Radio #11 is up. A shorter podcast than usual. Todays cast features new a new intro and some sweeps and tags by my main man Andy Mueller. I rap about iTunes, Podcast Alley and the recent Live 8 webcast by AOL. We then dig into some Vulgaria, a Baltimore based power pop quartet. […]

Cuban on Podcasting

Friday, July 15th, 2005

Mark Cuban has added a second post on his BlogMaverick in reponse to the feedback and comments he received on his initial post where he discusses why he thinks the podcasting phenomenon will run its course and not be economically viable, stating:

“Creating your own podcast and trying to make a business out of it is […]