Ever think of the convenience of dialing a number and listening to a podcast? It is possible thanks to two services, Podlinez and Fonpods.
Podlinez is essentially a portal providing you with podcasts and telephone numbers that correspond to the podcast so you can simply dial up and listen. There’s no sign-up required. […]

Ever since I wrote about Leo Laporte, I’ve been hearing more and more about his adamant stance to change the term “Podcast” to “Netcast.” Apparently, a lot of people disagree with him (myself included).
What’s your preference? Do you think Netcast is the better name?

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Yesterday I came across a small newspaper called The Niagara Gazette. The interesting thing about this paper was the way they were doing their daily news roundups. Rather than simply post the headlines of the day - the managing editor David Arkin reads them, in a pretty energetic fashion, on their Daily News […]

Wow - its a big day for PodShow as they announced that they just received fifteen million in VC money. Podshow describes themselves as a site where you get to choose what you listen to and when and where you listen to it. As the name would hint at - they focus on […]

A well known podcast host (he produces eight in total), Leo Laporte recently asked his listeners whether they preferred a long or a short version of his TWiT.tv podcast. Twenty thousand people responded in favor of the longer podcasts. TWiT is 120 minutes long.
Leo’s podcasts include “this WEEK in TECH,” “Inside the Net,” “MacBreak […]

Podbridge Inc., a startup company that provides demographics of podcast listeners, has announced on Monday that it has partnered with Forbes.com. This alliance has given Podbridge exclusive rights to be the provider of measurement tools and advertisement services for all of Forbes.com podcasts.
Forbes.com began providing online videos in 2002. With this partnership, Podbridge […]

From today’s Daily Mail:
Apple is waging war against companies that use the word “pod” in product and company names, arguing customers will be confused by what brand they are buying.
The action has been fuelled by Podcast Ready, a 13-employee company, which has developed software to allow podcasts to be delivered directly to digital music players.
Lawyers […]