Media search technology company PodZinger has announced they will re-brand as EveryZing to reflect in its name that its future business operations which will go beyond podcasting. The company also announced a major expansion plan into all forms of online multimedia content. PodZinger’s speech-to-text technology extracts text from audio and video files, offering additional information […]

Content delivery network Akamai Technologies unveiled today a new service that lets you interactively view real-time statistics on Internet traffic. In addition to letting you view Latency, Traffic and Attacks for the Internet, the service provides net usage indexes for Music, News and Retail. The information is captured by Akamai’s content delivery network. Akamai has […]

The Nielsen Company today announced that it will begin tracking mobile phone owners’ media activity with a new service called Nielsen Wireless. The service will track how many people use content services such as mobile Internet and mobile video and what impact this has on established media behavior. The service is designed specifically for the […]

Media analysis company Bridge Ratings and radio service provider Ando Media announced today that Bridge will now offer Ando’s suite of services designed to help Internet radio stations measure and monetize their audiences. The arrangement lets Bridge offer Ando’s three Internet Radio products through its new division called Net Radio Data: Ad Injector, an ad […]

Podcasting network PodShow appears to be getting some unwanted attention from hackers. Some PodShow members have reported getting emails like this: —–Original Message—– From: hacked.by.xxxxxxx@podshow.com [mailto:hacked.by.xxxxxxx@podshow.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:18 AM To: xxxxx@xxxxxx.com Subject: HACKED! podshow.com got HACKED by yeknom! PodShow has contained the issue and released this statement: At approximately 10am PST […]

FeedBurner has introduced Headline Animator, an application that displays the latest headlines from Feedburner users’ blogs, podcasts and RSS feeds for Facebook users worldwide. Facebook is a social utility that offers a way for people to stay connected with their friends and the people around them. Facebook is the sixth-most trafficked website in the United […]

Audible has announced that it is shuttering its proprietary podcasting alternative, Audible Wordcast: Dear Audible Wordcast customer, Regretfully, as of September 1, 2007, the Audible Wordcast service will no longer be available for public use. In the coming 90 days, we‚Äôll provide you with details regarding the process of shutting down or moving your podcasts […]

Apple today announced the launch of iTunes U, a dedicated area within the iTunes Store, featuring free content such as course lectures, language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours provided by top US colleges and universities including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT. With the introduction of iTunes U, Apple is […]

RadioDaddy, an Internet exchange for free voiceovers for radio stations, television, podcasters and movies, has found itself in the dog house with many podcasters over the strange way it announced a new site, VoiceDaddy. Podcaster Rob Walch took issue when he received this email from RadioDaddy: From: ‚ÄúRadioDaddy‚Äù Date: May 27, 2007 2:30:02 PM CDT […]

Companies hoping to create the “AdSense for video” just got some major competition. Google has announced that it is launching a pilot with a small group of publishers to test streaming video ads in their online video content. With this pilot, publishers control when the ads play in their videos and choose which videos get […]