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April 2006

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I cover the International Podcasting Expo (virtual) and some info on Podcast Awards in addition to a accident my wife had at the house. Plus my Windows Podcast Prediction. Save Money with all our GoDaddy Codes see our Promo Code Page [Try GoToMeeting free for 30 days at GoToMeeting.com/techpodcasts. No credit card needed.] Contest: Tech Podcast / U3 Developer Contest

Prediction Podcasting Integration coming to Windows in June?

I am going to go out on a limb here and am willing to bet cold hard cash, that at the end of June right about the time of Gnomedex, that Microsoft will introduce to Windows XP a podcast creation tool and Windows Media player with Podcast integration, including a independent directory. This is based on a lot of conversations

Click.TV

This weekend a long time supporter of this site and podcaster Shel Holtz sent me a invitation to look at the beta of Click.TV and while not being a video caster myself, I can see where the technology they have employed here is going to be really cool for bloggers that want to provide a link to a segment of

Cable Industry a loose loose situation

Do the cable companies think they can continue to do business as usual without bowing to the demand of today's tech smart, and shopping savvy consumer. If you read the reports coming out of the National Show which is the cable industries trade convention ,you would think that consumer choices are not important. Last year the FCC recommended that cable

State of the Blogsphere

David Sifry's state of the Blogsphere has been released and some of the numbers are truly incredible. A new blog is being created every second of every day. Along with the numbers of posting after 3 months is on the increase. Good read as always. [www.sifry.com]

PBS Auctioning a lot of Gear

Ohh this is enough to make a grown man cry, I am in serious thinking mode at the moment trying to figure out who I can get to go to Virgina for me and pick up some of this gear after I empty my bank account. Seriously though they are selling close to 2500 items, and if you want to

WordPress users crying about the Feed Validator

I have been hearing now for several weeks people in WP community bitching about the Feed Validator. Partly because a large percentage of the WP blogs out there have had according to "Feed Validator" invalid feeds. What puzzles me is that I have been running the same exact RSS template for about a year and guess what. Each time I

International Podcasting Expo

I just want everyone to know that I will be putting a presentation on during the virtual International Podcastings Expo that takes place next week. I will be talking about Podcast Networks and Marketing you Podcast. Should be a fun. Take some time and look at the lineup of people that will be speaking, pretty interesting assortment of folks that

Podkey.com settles dispute over RSS Feed Hijacking Fiasco

Back in the fall there was a major dispute between Podkey.com and Vegan.com in which Podkey was accused of RSS Hijacking. It has taken a long time but it looks like that they have settled there differences. Because I had an account on Podkey that was affected I received the following e-mail today. Statement Follows: ------------------- Based on a dispute

Sprint Ambassador Program

A shiny new Samsung phone from Sprint arrived in the mail this week to evaluate and so far, I am pretty impressed. As it was charging I was playing with the media options, and was blown away on the quality of the programming. The Samsung Phone model is a SPH-A920 and is loaded with all kinds of functions from there

What threat? Cable Vs. The Known

I read an article today that surprised me. For those of us on the New Media forefront the poll results of a group of cable executives at a recent conference shows how narrow there focus really is. They were asked to vote on the following. "What or who will be your biggest day-to-day competition in three years from today?" Their

BuyDomains.com shady lock in Practices

I have a handful of domains (11) that are still on a old registrar that I used to use. When they come up for renewal I have been transferring them over to GoDaddy. Well last night my daughters domain was within that renewal window and I decided to move it. To do so you have to unlock the domain then

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