Startup digital advertising and technology firm VoloMedia (formerly known as PodBridge) has  announced today a free metrics and analytics service that helps podcasters track the activity of the programs they publish to iTunes.
VoloMedia founder Murgesh Navar described the service in a post today on the Association for Downloadable Media blog:
“Bridge-to-Google Analytics is a plug-in to [...]

“Social radio network” BlogTalk Radio today announced the launch of two new “premium service packages.” The podcast production and distribution platform is offering enhanced services to talk show hosts (that is, podcasters), whose production needs have outgrown the podcast production and distribution platform’s more basic offerings.
The premium and premium plus service packages have monthly costs [...]

If you’re looking for a hosted blog platform, you may want to avoid Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces.
According to figures released today by Royal Pingdom, Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces is down more than 12 times as much as Wordpress, Blogger and TypePad.
Royal Pingdom checked nine major blogging services over a four month period to see how [...]

Mobilecasting update: Audioboo is a free iPhone application (App Store link) for recording and sharing audio with the world.
A built-in recorder lets you create audio blogs of up to 3 minutes in length and post them to your own account on the web. You can add titles, text, geolocation info and a photo to the [...]

Remote access and web-conferencing comapny Citrix Online introduced an all-in-one screen recording, editing and sharing service today at emerging technology conference DEMO. Citrix’s GoView is designed to allow users to create and share “recorded content” (like screen captures) online, extending the reach and possibilities for presentation.
The product’s creators say that GoView is the “first product [...]

Royal Pingdom has released stats that show the free blogging platform WordPress is the most popular platform for blogs and new media. 
They ranked the Technorati top 100 blogs, investigated what blog platforms they are using and found that WordPress has more than twice as many blogs in the top 100 as Movable Type, the blog platform that [...]

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Podcast hosting service Podango’s site has been wiped off the face of the internet. 
Visit their site and you’ll get a message that they are “currently on vacation”. Podcasters hoping to recover anything from Podango’s site appear to be out of luck. 
But at least their logo now shows Podango as being out of beta!
On Dec 26th, [...]

blubrry has announced that it’s offering a free month of podcast hosting to podcasters left homeless by the Podango failure:
We are prepared to assist the Podango podcasters by offering a step by step process and and special tool to automate the transferring of media files from Podango to the Blubrry network. In addition we [...]

New media pundit Paul Colligan has some interesting comments for podcasters today, in response to Podango’s shutdown announcement:
If you are a Podcaster on Podango (or any other site that has their domain name (not yours)), now is the time to own the very media you’ve worked so hard to create. If you use any other [...]

Amazon today announced a new service, Amazon CloudFront, that promises to speed up your site. 
It’s a simple pay-as-you-go content delivery network that offers to deliver your content to people, with Amazon-scale service, but without big upfront costs. 
Amazon has a network of “edge” network locations that it can automatically distribute your content to. These “edge” locations [...]