The second annual Podcast and Portable Media Expo, being held at the Ontario Convention Center (above) Sept 29-30, is getting underway with keynotes by podcaster and author Leo Laporte, host of TWiT.tv, and Ron Moore, Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica. Leo Laporte is kicking things off with a discussion of important issues facing podcasting as […]

The Podcast and Portable Media Expo, being held Sept 29-30 in Ontario, CA opens today. “We’ve been planning this event for nearly a year,” said event organizer Tim Bourquin. “It’s like a bobsled – you start pushing it downhill, and, after awhile, it picks up momentum and speeds on its own.” Bourquin recently described highlights […]

PodCamp Boston , September 8 – 9, was a free ad-hoc gathering of people interested in podcasting at Bunker Hill Community College, just north of Boston in Charlestown. Guest Reporter John Wall caught up with some of PodCamp’s participants early on the second day of the workshop, and asked what their favorite sessions so far […]

PodShow, a startup podcasting network co-founded by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, reportedly is getting an additional $15 million venture capital investment. According to Thomson Financial: PodShow inc., which recently raised $15 million in Series B funding. This follows up on an $8.85 million Series A deal from last summer, from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, […]

RadioTail, a podcasting ad network, has announced plans to provide a free metrics and dynamic ad insertion system to all podcasters. RadioTail has opened its platform up to all podcast producers for free through its new RadioTail Ripple service. RadioTail Ripple lets audio and video podcasters track the usage of their media files and build […]

Kansas State University announced today plans to create the largest eduational podcast library in the world. K-State, located in Manhattan, KS, plans to have all 6,000 class podcasts available to its students this year, making it by far the education realm’s largest podcasting implementation worldwide. The university is using Tegrity Campus 2.0, a content-management system […]

Wizzard Software announced today the acquisition of a second podcasting company, Blast Podcast, an podcast advertising and hosting service provider. Previously, Wizzard announced an agreement to purchase Switchpod.com, a podcast hosting service. Wizzard plans to combine its experience in the area of speech recognition technology into Blast Podcast’s business plans. Wizzard will incorporate its server-based […]

Akamai, the leading Web content delivery network, today announced that Kiptronic, an ad marketplace for the podcasting industry, will use the Akamai global EdgePlatform to accelerate its customer’s distribution of audio and video podcasts over the Internet. Kiptronic’s multimedia ad insertion technology lets audio and video podcast publishers select targeted advertisements and sponsorships to run […]

Does the world still need podcasters? That’s the question raised by the latest announcement from MagneticTime, a text-to-speech software developer. The company announced today that MT-Podcast, an application that can automatically convert scripts to podcasts, is now available for free to hobbyist bloggers. ‚ÄúThe blogging community is growing and vibrant ‚Äì and one which can […]

Paramagnus Developments has introduced a new podcast hosting service, Podcast Spot. Service features include: Flexible Storage Space Unmetered Bandwidth Automatic Media Conversion Easy Organization Automatic P2P Support for iTunes Simple Payment Options Professional hosting plans start at $7/month, and a free introductory plan (25mb) is also available.