Updating your WordPress-based site to WordPress 2.6 may break your podcast.
Users are reporting incompatibilities between Mighty Seek’s PodPress, the popular free podcasting add-on for WordPress, and the recently-announced WordPress 2.6.
Here’s a typical message from the PodPress forum:
I installed Wordpress 2.6 (the full version, not the Release Candidate) today but am having problems as soon as [...]

Matt Mullenweg has announced WordPress 2.6, the latest update to the popular blogging & podcasting platform.
Five Hot Changes In WordPress 2.

Press This! is back- this popular feature disappeared in an earlier update to WordPress, but is back with a vengeance. Inspired by Flock, FriendFeed, Facebook, Tumblr, and Delicious, and the Quick Post plugin by Josh [...]

Raanan Bar-Cohen has announced the imminent release of WordPress For iPhone:
The WordPress for iPhone App is nearly ready to go. It supports WordPress.com blogs as well as self-hosted WordPress.org blogs running version 2.5.1 or newer.
Timing wise, with the launch of Apple’s iTunes App store this morning, we expect to see this showing up very [...]

Video community site Seesmic has announced that it has partnered with Six Apart, the maker of Movable Type to provide Movable Type users and their readers with the ability to integrate video comments alongside traditional text-based comments.
Seesmic already offers a plug-in for integrating its video system into WordPress sites.
The MT plug in is a free [...]

Internet telephony service Skype has announced a new version, Skype 4.0 Beta for Windows.
The new version focuses on improving video telephony features and offering better usability.
Here are a couple of videos that explain the Skype 4.0:
Skype 4.0 Beta - Introductory Demoby SkypeConversations
Mike Bartlett introduces Skype, and demos the new Skype 4.0 Beta for Windows.
Skype 4.0 [...]

Microsoft today announced the release of the Podcasting Kit for SharePoint (PKS), a free, open source podcasting kit that offers organizations a centralized solution to create, manage and distribute podcasts.
Built on the SharePoint Server and Microsoft Silverlight platforms, and compatible with the Zune, PCs and other devices that play podcasts (ie., iPods & iPhones), the [...]

The Simple Flash Video plugin builds on other plugins that allow easy posting of .flv or .mp4 files in Wordpress.
With this plugin you can easily post .flv or .mp4 videos to your blog. Viewers can then instantly watch the video without having to fully download it before watching.
You can also use it to “float” videos [...]

Startup software developer Plum Amazing has announced that Plum Record for the iPhone will be available as soon as the iTunes AppStore comes online.
Apple hasn’t made an official announcement on this when the AppStore will be available, but it’s expected to open next week.
Plum Record is an audio recording application for the iPhone. While recording audio [...]

ExtraLabs has updated Skype Recorder, its Windows app that can automatically record Skype calls.
Skype is popular with podcasters because it lets you make free digital calls to anyone with an Internet connection.
The software record into MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV formats, recording conversations in either single or dual audio tracks and even has a built-in FTP-client for uploading files.
The [...]

Magnify has introduced a new service that promises to make it easy for Movable Type and Wordpress publishers to incorporate media from a variety of sites.
Magnify Publisher is a native blog application that lets you search for video, text, and images, using key words and tags, and embed the content directly into a post, without [...]