Users of free podcast host WildVoice.com have been notified that the service will cease operation next month. The latest (and perhaps last?) post on the company blog states: “We will no longer be supporting the WildVoice.com site as of July 1, 2009. The site will shutdown sometime on or after that date. We’re sure you’ve […]

If you’re looking for a hosted blog platform, you may want to avoid Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces. According to figures released today by Royal Pingdom, Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces is down more than 12 times as much as WordPress, Blogger and TypePad. Royal Pingdom checked nine major blogging services over a four month period to […]

Podcast production and hosting site Blubrry.com today announced the addition of Open ID sign-in capabilities. Open ID is an open, decentralized standard for “user authentication and access control.” In other words, it allows users to log onto many sites and services with a single digital identity. Blurbrry founder Todd Cochrane explains: “You can now login […]

Erik Rassmussen has released a WordPress plugin that’s designed to make it easy for audio bloggers to use YouTube as a free audio host.  YT-Audio adds an flash audio player to your blog that streams audio from YouTube. It works by trimming the standard YouTube video player to only show the controls. The above image shows […]

Late last year, podcast network and hosting provider Podango shut down rather abruptly. We heard from Podango cofounder Lee Gibbons yesterday, with an update on what is happening with the Utah-based startup: I hope this message finds you well. This email is to update you on Podango’s situation. After seeking funding from both traditional and […]

\ Podcast hosting service Podango’s site has been wiped off the face of the internet.  Visit their site and you’ll get a message that they are “currently on vacation”. Podcasters hoping to recover anything from Podango’s site appear to be out of luck.  But at least their logo now shows Podango as being out of […]

blubrry has announced that it’s offering a free month of podcast hosting to podcasters left homeless by the Podango failure: We are prepared to assist the Podango podcasters by offering a step by step process and and special tool to automate the transferring of media files from Podango to the Blubrry network. In addition we […]

Podcasting startup Podango has announced that its future is uncertain, attributing its situation to the current uncertainties of the financial market.

Podango is warning users to make sure they’ve got their data backed up before the end of this month.

Pittsburgh-based Wizzard Software announced Monday third-quarter revenues of $1,533,339, a 4% increase over revenues of $1,468,476 during Q3 2007. The company also reported revenues of $4,667,690 during the nine month period ended September 30, 2008, a 29% increase over revenues of $3,622,499 for the same period in 2007. Wizzard provides online publishing tools for podcast […]

Ever wonder what the best place is to host a blog or podcast so that your site doesn’t die the first time you get on Digg? WhoIsHostingThis, a free service that lets you check where sites are hosted, tested the top 100 blogs (based on Technorati rank). They found that two hosts, Media Temple and […]