WordPress developer Danilo Ercoli has announced WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.2, an update that adds mobilecasting features and more. Here’s what’s new in version 1.2: Ability to show comprehensive site stats for WordPress.com sites and for self-hosted sites running the WP.com stats plugin Ability to add audio recordings to a post/page Ability to post media [...]

Mobilecasting startup Audioboo and SpinVox, a leader in voice to content messaging, have announced that the SpinVox API (Application Programming Interface) will be used to automatically convert speech to text across Audioboo’s applications – including iPhone podcasting and Twitter posting. This is a cool new feature that will have all types of uses. For example, [...]

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 [...]

At Scripting News, pioneering podcaster Dave Winer is highlighting a service from BlogTalkRadio that makes podcasting a no-brainer: A new service from BlogTalkRadio… Call their special phone number: 646-200-0000. It records the call. When you’re done it creates an RSS 2.0 feed with an enclosure that’s an MP3 of the call. The address of the [...]

YouTube is getting serious about mobilecasting, expanding its mobile service to include virtually all of the videos available on its Web site. Starting today, people with current generation mobile phones can watch tens of millions of YouTube videos. YouTube also is providing mobile access to many of the same features that have become staples of [...]

Today, Helio announced a new mobilecasting service that they are calling “the most comprehensive YouTube experience currently offered on mobile!” They could have thrown a “massive” or “global” into that, but the service is exactly the type of thing we’ve been pushing for for years: mobile devices that are sophisticated two-way Web publishing platforms. Available [...]

Podcaster, mobilecasting guru and Zune Podcast Programming Manager Rob Greenlee has announced 1-click podcast subscriptions for the Zune portable media player. The 1-click process will launch the Zune Marketplace software and add the podcast subscription to the user’s collection. The process will work best if the Zune user already has the new Zune Marketplace software [...]

VeriSign and Bamboo MediaCasting, a mobile content delivery solutions provider, have teamed to offer VeriSign Mobile Media Cast, a managed mobile podcast service for wireless operators. The VeriSign Mobile Media Cast is a fully managed solution which provides operators the ability to deliver licensed podcast content to their customers, with complete life-cycle management of the [...]

We noted earlier Movable Type’s new iPhone blogging support. It looks like WordPress users are interested in the iPhone, too. Content Robot has introduced iWPhone, a plug in that automatically generates an iPhone-compatible version of WordPress-based sites. The iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone. It [...]

Dave Winer, one of the creators of podcasting, offers his take on the process of syncing that is central to most people’s podcast consumption: Why syncing sucks – I think synching is a bad idea, but Apple’s mobile technology is built around it. I dislike synching. I want my devices to go straight to the [...]