PodTech.net sat down for an exclusive podcast with Seagate CEO Bill Watkins to talk about their announced their 4th qtr earnings and fiscal year end results for 2006.

This was the first time a pubic company sat down and did a podcast as part of their ...

Niall Kennedy was on the job for only three months. Hey how long can you sit around waiting to build a platfrom. Google is expanding and MSN seems to be cutting back according to Niall. Bummer the project sounded perfect for Niall and for MSN. ...

Wired has a story today questioning if Steve Jobs has lost his edge? Steve Jobs is the main player in tech and media period. Google is gunning for Apple with their latest announcements as a sign of things to come. With iTunes and the ...

What about mobile podcasting? That is podcasts on cell phones? I get this question all the time. I’m not bullish about it in the short term but it is obvious that it will happen. The question is when? Today Alltel announced that they are offering ...

Talk about a Billion Dollar Baby for News Corp and what a week so far for Google. Google is putting out a series of big announcements this week. I think that the MySpace announcement in combination with the Viacom deal is big for Google. ...

What a day… McKinsey, a famed management consulting company, reports continued massive decline in TV spending and then Google announces their Viacom deal. My take - no one watches traditional TV anymore.

The Google / Viacom deal is good news for PodTech.net and all the emerging new video ...

PodTech.net has been producing podcasts in real time to get out the summaries of the Steve Jobs keynote and the rest of the Apple WWDC speechs and announcements. Also in the audience are our friends from Engaget - they have some great photos from the audience.

PodTech Photos ...

Here is a GeekCast from friends in SLC. Robert was there as part of his road trip to the “off the grid” in Montana… Thanks to Laura Moncur for posting the video. Looks like a great time.

Also coverage by M. David Peterson who posts ...

PodTech News is reporting from the Apple WWDC putting out all the highlights of Steve Jobs keynote.

Dave Sifry the founder of Technorati the authority of the blogosphere released his ussual “State of the Blogosphere”. Great work by Dave and his team in getting these stats out. The conversation will continue no doubt on the TechMeme

Dave says “Today, the blogosphere is doubling ...

PodTech announces a partnership this week with Dow Jones to be the official partner for their upcoming events. Dow Jones Venturewire partners with PodTech for event coverage for the upcoming Venturewire events within healthcare and emerging technology sectors.

I’m very excited by this announcement in that it ...

PodTech’s own Robert Scoble is featured today in the San Jose Mercury News also known as the Merc here in Silicon Valley. What’s compelling about the story is the openness of the net and how opportunities are created via transparency. Nice article by Michelle Quinn

The ...

I would have liked to see the debate between Benkler and Calacanis that almost happened. Jason make news this past month when he offered to pay the top Diggers to post on Netscape. Jason is turning around the Netscape brand and Benkler is the author of “Coase’s ...

The world is clearly moving to a “Network of Networks” we’ll all be interconnected in some way and it looks like the smartest technology companies are moving that way.

Feedburner is testing a new concept called Feedburner Network as outlined by Brad Feld, who sits on their board of ...

Now we’re seeing it the battle of branding. Intel and AMD are reshaping their brands. AMD is dropping the ATI brand according to a blog post today by Custom PC News.

Intel has been aggressively branding the Core 2 Duo line. The challenge for AMD ...

Here is a podcast on how the blog and feed search works on BlogLines. This is part two of this report focuses on how blog and feed search works on the blog search engine, Bloglines.

OAKLAND, CA, June 1, 2006 (Podtech News) – Bloglines has powerful new tools for searching ...

PodTech.net Launches Marketing Voices™. New PodTech Podcast Brand Focuses on Social Media’s Impact on Marketing. Show Created and Hosted by Marketing Aficionado Jennifer Jones

MENLO PARK, CA. (May 1, 2006) PodTech.net, Inc.a media company dedicated to podcasting and delivering Fresh Voices™ for the iPod generation, today announced ...

Polycom announces a Skype client for Skype. The first joint product from this alliance is the Polycom Communicator(TM), a Skype Certified, co-branded USB speakerphone that leverages Polycom’s renowned Acoustic Clarity Technology(TM) to deliver hands- free, natural, two-way voice communication for Skype voice and video conversations, without echoes or feedback. ...

PodTech’s Michael Johnson podcasted the news of Maxtor’s upcoming products. Infoworld links to the podcast.

Maxtor places the emphasis squarely on mobility and security in the latest addition to its OneTouch line of external drives, the OneTouch III Mini Edition.

Digital Silence ...

Update: See below - Charlene Li reports on podcasting market and podcast adoption. I previously had a PodTech InfoTalk with Charlene last year. She is a very solid analyst but I don’t know why or how she would come out with these low numbers. ...

Apple goes Windows. PodTech’s traffic logs show that the dominant user client of iTunes is by Windows users. This move makes total sense especially since the Intel Inside move Apple made.

PodTech.net has more Window’s iTunes users than Mac. Great move to sell more MacBooks. ...

Ross Mayfield gives birth to Miki. What’s really important about Miki is that this is a clear sign that mobility features will be integrated into social media platforms. SocialText, a pioneer in social platforms, is introducing a new mobility piece called Miki. Soon all social platforms ...

Next week there is a cutting edge conference at Stanford that is free for journalism and innovation professionals to attend. Registration: http://scil.stanford.edu/InJo-2006/signup.fft. Vint Cerf, PodTech, Google, CNet, Tony Perkins, Ross Mayfield, Dan Gillmor, USVP’s Paul Mateucci, and other great folks like Harry McCracken, Michael Kanellos.

Innovation journalism ...

Venture Capital InfoTalk™ with David Hornik from June 2005. Host: John Furrier

I found this ‘gem’ of a podcast in my archive that I never published. This podcast was from June 2005 when we were just beginning to discuss the Web 2.0 and the implications 0n ...