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Free Mobile Blog Software

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 20th, 2006

Globe Telecom, the leading telecommunications operator in the Philippines, and Nokia, today announced that Globe is the first operator in the world to offer their customers a fully integrated mobile online sharing experience with Nokia Nseries phones.

Without the need to download or install any additional applications, Globe customers can now upload their photos and video [...]

Blogosphere Transistions

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 12th, 2006

Robert Scoble, a well-known Microsoft blogger, announced he is joining PodTech.Network as Vice President of Media Development. Scoble maintained the popular blog, Scobleizer which is currently listed in the top 10 blogs on Technorati. At Microsoft, Channel 9, their video blog, gave the corporation a human face that people could relate to. The [...]

Video Blogging Expands

Posted by Sam Churchill on June 5th, 2006

Yahoo relaunched their video site last Thursday, offering “MyStudio,” allowing content owners to upload their video, and paste them into web pages as well as view statistics on who is watching and see user ratings.
The very next day YouTube shot back by introducing new features of its own. Users can now create “channels,” where they [...]

DaVinci Mashup

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 20th, 2006

You and I, Robert, we have observed history. We are in history now. - The Da Vinci Code
Online photo sharing site Webshots.com has compiled a photo album with locations keyed to the Da Vinci Code movie. The site’s photo editors sifted through users’ photos and compiled an album of more than 300 photos [...]

Semantic Podcasting?

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 21st, 2006

Yesterday at Portland’s Innotech Conference, Alex Williams, founder of The Podcast Hotel, Podcast from the expo floor (Photo Sets & Jaako’s slideshow and Josh’s slideshow).
I’m a big fan of Alex Williams and the cluster of talented Portland Podcasters (Wiki). Alex moderated The Business of Podcasting and the Growth of [...]

Podcasting: Big or Not

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 7th, 2006

Last year, people spent $2 billion online for everything from digital music and movies to research, dating site subscriptions, and greeting cards, reports the Business2Blog. While subscription revenues still account for 78% of the total, one-time payments grew 40% thanks mostly to iTunes.

The whole Entertainment segment (music, movies, etc) totalled only $573 million, but [...]

NPR Podcasts to Cellphones

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 6th, 2006

National Public Radio will become the first major media company to deliver podcasts to mobile phone users using Melodeo software. NPR will deliver 45 of its podcasts, which including All Songs Considered, NPR Story of the Day, and On Gambling with Mike Pesca.

Melodeo helped develop and launch the AOL mobile instant-messaging client as [...]

Podzinger

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 2nd, 2006

Inside the Net with Amber McCarther and Leo Laporte features Podzinger (MP-3) which indexes and searches audio and video podcasts. Inside the Net interviewed Alex Laats, president of BBN Delta, who developed and is marketing the service.

Most podcast directories search only by subject, category [...]

Scooble’s Bombshell

Posted by Sam Churchill on April 1st, 2006

From Robert Scooble’s Blog:

I just got off the phone with Larry Page. He’s offered me a job to run Google’s PR department and I’ve decided to take him up on it. Why? Because I finally realized that Steve Gillmor is right. Microsoft Office is dead and I wanted to be at the company [...]

Acoustic Shadows

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 18th, 2006

From the most reverberant room in the world to a chamber where sounds die the moment they almost leave your mouth, the BBC’s Robert Sandall takes a journey into the world of acoustics - its origins, its people and some of its amazing soundscapes. It’s Acoustic Shadows (ra).