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.

Wizzard Software, a company that specializes in text-to-speech technolgoy, has announced that it is purchasing podcast hosting service provider, Switchpod.com. Wizzard plans to leverage its text-to-speech technology to benefit podcasters. Wizzard plans to simplify the search process by allowing audio and video podcasts to be fed through its speech recognition system, creating a transcript of […]

The Miami Herald has an article on Weina Scott, a tech-savvy teen that just happens to be the CEO of $200k podcasting website. Weina Scott answers about 100 tech support e-mails a day. The website must be perfect — one glitch, and 6,000 irate customers will bombard her inbox. But first, she has to study […]

Added to Podcast Directory List: PersianCast is described as “The First Iranian Podcast Provider”. The site debuted Sept 20th, and is a free service. According to the site, “all Persian language people can send their podcasts to the site.”

Podcast hosting site CyberEars.com is offering the first 50 new podcasters free hosting for 6 months, including 500mb of storage and unlimited bandwidth as a way of raising awareness and expanding the number of podcasts hosted at the site. Conditions: Podcasts must contain spoken word, original material, and not breach any copyright regulations Podcasts must […]

WildVoice, a podcasting host and podcast community currently in beta, has announced support for embedding podcasts at MySpace and blog sites. Users can create podcasts with WildVoice and then add those audio messages to blogs and other social networking sites. “Social networking is all about personalization in the often anonymous cyber world. Nothing is more […]

At the Future of Web Apps conference, held September 13-14 in San Francisco, Odeo’s CEO Evan Williams revealed how his startup podcasting company screwed up. Last year Williams blogged his thoughts about tech startup companies, publishing his Ten Rules for Web Startups. But according to Williams, he didn’t follow his own rules, letting his company […]

Libsyn, a popular podcast hosting service, has debuted a new site for heavy-hitting podcast customers, LibsynPRO. Libsyn currently provides many podcasters with hosting, syndication and blogging services. Their new offering provides the same types of services, but aimed towards corporate publishers. Early adopters of LibsynPRO include the National Geographic Society, National Public Radio (NPR), and […]

GoDaddy, a popular domain registrar and web hosting service, has introduced a new service for podcasters, GoDaddy.com Quick Podcast. The service is designed to let users easily publish and manage their shows.”As North America’s largest hosting provider, Go Daddy is in a strong position to support the podcasting community. I’m a podcaster myself with my […]

WildVoice, a podcast and media sharing community now in beta, has add introduced a new web-based recorder, “Shout.” The application is designed to let anyone with a PC, an Internet connection and a microphone record a podcast or post comments to other podcasts at the site. “Podcasting is about having fun and encouraging free expression […]