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A Step Above – Mevio Produces Daily Videos to Promote Top Content

I have talked about Mevio.com (formerly PodShow) many times here on the Podcast Alley blog. When they started out they were known as the first company to host podcasts, but they have evolved quite a bit over the years. I would like to take a minute to talk about one of the things I like about what they are doing these days. Lots of New Content, Every Single Day While they still offer free podcast hosting to anyone who wants it, they also have a full promotions team that sits around all day, every day, and finds great new content

Freelance Switch Offers Up List of 31 Podcasts for Freelancers

One of the blogs/websites I am a big fan of, Freelance Switch, empowers freelancers around the world. Not only is it a great place to find & promote freelance work, they also work hard to keep their users engaged and up to date with the latest happenings in the independent world (including many resources, an active forum, job boards, a podcast and much more). But lets get on to the reason I am telling you all of this site… While the folks at Freelance Switch have been podcasting since 2007 (find their podcast here), they have been helping freelancers for

EVENTS: 4 Upcoming PodCamps – Atlanta, Montreal, Barcelona and Topeka

September is a big month for PodCamp fans… especially those in Atalanta, Montreal, Barcelona and Topeka… PodCamp is coming to your town! For those of you who are unfamiliar with PodCamp, it is a usually free BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media enthusiasts and professionals including bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, social networkers, and anyone curious about new media. And it’s not just for podcasters, its for anyone interested in producing content for the web for social networks, podcasts, music, blogs, tweets… pretty much everything awesome. September PodCamp Calendar: PodCamp Atlanta 2 – Location TBD – September 17-19, 2009 PodCamp Montreal – September 19-20, 2009,

A New Chapter in the Life of Podcast Alley – 5 Years in the Making

Many of you may have noticed an increase in content coming out of Podcast Alley recently. More podcaster interviews, more featured podcasts, more forum moderation and posting, more blog posts and more general activity. This is not a fluke… I am back! I started Podcast Alley in 2004 and helped build many of the early concepts that made podcasting what it is today. I partnered with iTunes when they were first learning what podcasting was and provided them with their initial directory of shows to launch their podcast section of iTunes. I helped Todd Cochrane, a podcasting pioneer, with the

Wizzard Media Launches 15 Podcast Specific iPhone Apps, Becomes Top App Seller

In August of this year Wizzard Media, parent of long time podcast hosting company Libsyn, started looking for alternative revenue sources. They started purchasing and releasing iPhone applications such as Word Party, Dietician and Yo Mama which seemed very confusing to what I saw as their primary business… podcast hosting and distribution. But they surprised us again by releasing 15 new iPhone applications for specific podcasts on their network. I can only believe that they used the Yo Mama application to learn how to build and sell iPhone applications. I had read the press release about the new podcast specific

Google Labs Releases Audio Podcast Player, Google Listen

A new Google Labs feature was released a few weeks ago for all of the podcast fans out there called . This application, built for your Android phone, brings podcasts and web audio to your Android-powered device. It lets you search, subscribe, download and stream. By subscribing to programs and search terms it will create a personalized audio-magazine loaded with fresh shows and news stories whenever you listen. In this release Listen is indexing thousands of popular English-only audio sources. In the user group for this new service people are already starting to get restless waiting for a new release.

Podcasting Pioneer Scott Sigler Launches Book Publishing House Dark Overlord Media

In a press release issued last Wednesday (8/19/2009), early podcaster, and the innovator of the worlds first podcast-only novel, Scott Sigler announced the launch of his book publishing house Dark Overlord Media. The intent of this new publishing house will be to produce books and other properties for established online personalities, which he is proving is possible with the release of his personal book, THE ROOKIE. Those who know Sigler know that he is the kind of guy that gets shit done, plain and simple. I have had the opportunity to work on projects with Sigler many times over the

President Obama to Appear on the 40 Minutes for Health Reform Podcast Today

According to a story published on TechCrunch, President Obama will be appearing on a podcast titled “40 Minutes for Health Reform“, hosted on the BlogTalkRadio website. The show will air live Today — Wednesday at 5 PM ET (2 PM PT) on both BlogTalkRadio’s program page found here, and on the Faith For Health site. Make sure you tune in on time for the Live show as the President will be speaking for the first 10 minutes, with the other 30 minutes of the program being dedicated to a roundtable discussion. Social media use (such as this) chosen by the

Using Every Podcast Feature on Your New iPhone

A few months ago when the new iPhone 3g came out (and with that the new 3.0 operating system) Steve Jobs promised there were over 100 new features, but they did not take the time to document them all. Thanks to the team at CrunchGear as well as users across the country, we have started to find some of the new podcast related features on the new iPhone. Now before you get all snarky and start complaining that some of these existed before, I will say that not ALL of these are new features… but some of these have been

Miro Video Player Upgrades, Supports Audio Podcasts!

For those of you who love to watch online video and listen to audio in style, you will love the new release of the . As the image above indicates, they are touting “faster performance, audio podcasts and lots of polish”… all of which we here at Podcast Alley are big fans of. I have been using miro for years now to enjoy online content from their directory of video shows and to download all of our favorite video podcasts for offline watching. But with the recent upgrade, they FINALLY support audio podcasts! Audio podcasting is still a hugely successful