The Kraft Group, which owns, among other things, the New England Patriots, has led a group of investors in providing $4.6m SeriesA financing to Blog Talk Radio.
Founded in 2006 by former telecom executive Alan Levy, Blog Talk Radio provides a platform for businesses and individuals to create their own live call-in talk show without the [...]

Radionomy, a Belgian startup, is a site that lets you create a free, ad-supported Web radio station
The site, now in beta testing, is designed to make creating a Web radio station trivial, letting you browse through vast music, jingle and content libraries made available by Radionomy. You can also integrate your own musical creations or [...]

Velocix today announced the availability of its free Velocix Accelerator digital delivery service.
The new service is aimed at the growing and vibrant community of entrepreneurs and new start-up ventures, as well as larger organizations looking to distribute rich media such as video, music, games and software on-line. Velocix’s service is designed to ensure that website [...]

Adobe today announced the immediate availability of Adobe Media Player 1.0 software, a app built on Adobe AIR that could significantly change the world of Internet media.
Adobe Media Player is a cross-platform media player that is being distributed by Adobe, but that can also be distributed as a “branded” player by publishers. Major television broadcasters [...]

The Houston Business Journal reports that Data Call Technologies Inc. is acquiring privately-held Podcast Ready.
Podcast Ready is a software and Web services company whose products and services permit the aggregation and distribution of audio and video podcasts. Their myPodder podcast client is preinstalled on some MP3 players.
Data Call said the acquisition will strengthen its [...]

Wizzard Software, the parent company of Liberated Syndication and several podcast hosting services, announced today that revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $1,540,992, a 108% increase over revenues of $739,551 in the fourth quarter of 2006.
For the full year of 2007, the Company recorded revenues of $5,163,491, a 75% increase of $2,195,967 from [...]

TiVo today introduced version 2.6 of TiVo Desktop for Windows, adding deeper support for Web videos and podcasts.
Features include:

You can now transfer all your downloaded Web Video from your PC to your TiVo DVR so you can watch them on your TV.
Automatic conversions of your TiVoToGo transfers to support portable devices that support MPEG-4 or [...]

YouTube today announced new features that turn YouTube into a platform for Internet video development:
We now provide a complete set of (CRUD) capabilities for uploading, managing, searching, and playing back user videos and metadata from the YouTube “cloud,” managed by us. We do all of the hard work of transcoding and hosting and streaming and [...]

Libsyn has announced an update to it stats offering will be released on Monday.
Addressed in this release:

lack of updates for new files
low numbers for past 9 months
speed to load stats UI
accuracy of data
user agents list (zune, appleTV, iPhone, miro, etc added)
real trending data over time.. per month/week/day downloads of episodes or entire show
general confusion from [...]

What does $4.5 million and the help of a superdope homeboy from the Oaktown get you these days?
Not much, if the just-out-of-beta Dancejam is any indication.
Dancejam is a YouTube clone that focuses on urban dance. The site lets you view videos of people doing various types of dance, rate the videos and upload your own. [...]