Wizzard Media has officially launched its Wizzard Media Player and is demoing it this week in Las Vegas at the 2008 New Media Expo (NME). The Player lets you embed video imported from an RSS feed on web sites, blogs and social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
An example of the new media player [...]

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 [...]

BlogTalkRadio today announced that it has updated its Cinch mobile podcasting service to let you use a custom podcast feed URL. Previously, your podcast feed URL was automatically set to your mobile phone number.
When the service was introduced, we questioned the decision to embed your phone number in the feed url:
I question a service that [...]

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 feed is a [...]

Podcast host Libsyn reports that they are updating their stats engine to address some ongoing issues with it and add new features:
We know stats accuracy is an ongoing issue and that libsyn users have had to exhibit a lot of patience and swallow a lot of frustration as we’ve worked through the problems over the [...]

Yahoo! today introduced a new live video conferencing service, Yahoo! Live.
We haven’t seen an official announcement yet; we learned about this from ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick via Twitter.
Kirkpatrick’s take:
The service combines many of the best practices developed by early explorers of the medium, tiny startups that must be very worried tonight. Part BlogTV, part Mogulus and [...]

Kent Nichols, co-creator of the popular video podcast Ask A Ninja, has started a new blog, and it already looks like it could become essential reading for indie new media content creators.
His first post takes a look at YouTube and why video podcasters and vloggers shouldn’t depend on it:
“YouTube doesn‚Äôt care about any one creator, [...]

Google has announced a new project, Our Stories, to help people share the stories of their lives, no matter where they live or how their stories unfold.
The project brings together the efforts of Google, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) and UNICEF.
Google is providing the infrastructure to let people around the world create and share personal [...]

In this episode of the New Media Update, Podcasting News’ Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talks with Mark Rotblat, one of the founders of TubeMogul.com, a web video distribution and analytics startup.
TubeMogul has developed an interesting tool for video producers. It lets you upload your video once, and TubeMogul distributes the video to whichever popular video sharing [...]

 

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Heavyweight podcast hosting provider Wizzard Software has announced changes to the Company’s Board of Directors, as part of a bid to get listed on the American Stock Exchange.
The Board accepted the resignations of Armen Geronian and Gordon Berry, effective October 3, 2007. Geronian and Berry resigned for the sole purpose of facilitating the creation of [...]