PodJournals has announced the beta release of its social podcasting service, as well as client software for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher. According to the company, their service is designed to make the podcast the new center of the social networking experience. “Podcasting has traditionally been a static, top-down medium, but we see […]

WildVoice, a personal broadcasting community, has developed a Halloween-themed podcast player, right, that anyone can use on WildVoice, in their MySpace page or other blogs to play their audio recordings. It’s configured so that, once Halloween is over, users only need to switch the player to a new skin and it will automatically update on […]

Wizzard Software, a company that specializes in speech recognition applications, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement for a $1,750,000 private placement with institutional investors. Earlier in the week, the company announced that it was acquiring podcast hosting service Libsyn. “The capital infusion allows us to continue funding our recently announced podcasting […]

Wizzard Software announced today that it has agreed to acquire Libsyn, the world‚Äôs largest podcasting network. Wizzard is on a spending spree; recently it announced several other podcast-related acquisitions. ‚ÄúLibsyn is on a mission to empower the content creator in this new age of independent media by creating unique opportunities to share advertising revenues with […]

Evan Williams has announced that he has created a new startup, Obvious Corp, and purchased the assets of the podcasting community he helped found, Odeo. Odeo has struggled to meet William’s expectations; though it’s a relatively popular podcasting community, the field is dominated by Apple. “I screwed up several things, which hindered that quick success,” […]

Divvycast today announced free podcast hosting for bands and musicians. The free service offers 50 MB data storage and 5 GB per month bandwidth. The new free level joins Divvycast’s existing 3 subscription tiers, which start at $9.95 per month for 1GB data storage and 50GB per month bandwidth.

BlogAmp, a service that offers audio hosting and a customizable Flash interface for podcasts and other audio files, is offering a free trial for the next 500 users to try the service through November 10th. The fine print: 50MB Total Storage limit with Unlimited plays/downloads 25 MB limit per uploaded MP3

Domain registrar and Web hosting provider Private Domain Depot has introduced a Quick Podcast service for home, hobby or business podcasters. The company is offering three plans to choose from, starting at $5.99/month for 1GB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth, which they say is equivalent to about 3,600 downloads of a 1-hour talk […]

Seattle-based Divvycast this week unveiled a podcasting portal dedicated to “connecting musicians with advertisers.” Divvycast lets musicians create and upload podcasts and gain sponsorship from interested advertisers. Musicians can generate income by posting these podcasts with the top podcast aggregators and social networking sites across the internet. Through music clips, live concert recordings, and interviews, […]

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 […]