Yay! We’re announcing the date for the Second Annual Vloggies - as a big heads up. The industry will evolve so much within one year, and once again, we will ask the community for their input in how most effectively to continue promoting vlog creators, producers, and their work - ...

We’re really happy to post the official list of The Vloggies winners announced on Saturday night. Many congratulations to Alive in Baghdad, which won six awards including Favorite Vlog, Favorite Group Blog, Favorite Political Vlog, and Favorite Interview Vlog. Alive in Baghdad also won the People’s Choice Award for ...

The Vloggies first annual videoblog awards night made its debut in San Franscisco. The net paparazzi were out in force. PodTech, along with other videobloggers, has extensive coverage of the night. We will release that content shortly, but here is a short video showing the highlights.

Meanwhile, ...

Jason Calacanis, as we all know, is a very passionate guy, but not only about media and tech. He’s been talking for a while about “media philanthropy” and what he wants to do for kids and a school dear to his heart - Bay Ridge Prep, in Brooklyn.

Most Silicon Valley technocrats will recognize three of the four people in this picture. They are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Google, and John Doerr from Kliener Perkins Caufield & Byers.

But you might not recognize the recipient of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Dr. Yunus ...

Well everyone, welcome to a new PodTech.net! It’s been a hectic few months, could you tell? We’ve been building out a platform to support video. Robert Scoble joined our team. We’ve been reorganizing our content. We hired a bunch of new people, including reporters in LA, Boston, amazing ...

At BlogCamp India in Chennai this past weekend, Robert Scoble spoke to a spirited crowd of Indian bloggers, who came from all over India to converge upon a weekend-long hub of activity, ideas and passionate people.

After a few initial snags in the wee hours of the ...

Here is your chance to preview some of the content for the soon-to-be-launched PodTech India channel. PodTech India is dedicated to on-the-ground coverage of ideas, trends, and people involved in the Indian technology industry.

PodTech India gives you direct access to ideas, influencers, and issues originating from the ecosystem of Indian entrepreneurs, thought leaders, companies, and startups. The PodTech India Channel also capitalizes on a shared connection between technology epicenters in India and technologically-attuned Indian diasporas worldwide, including the Silicon Valley.

Robert Scoble is the September 4, 2006 interview on Marketing Voices and his passion for blogging is infectious! Scoble delves into the power of word of mouth, links, the world of Google and all the ways that a corporation can increase its influence by blogging. Recently, Scoble ...

Since PodTech is expanding from its core audio podcasting expertise to include text and video blogging, I thought I would explore some of the differences of the three communication forms in a series of blog posts.

I originally stumbled across Professor Walter Ong’s work while studying language acquisition at Santa ...

Lots of companies ask PodTech how to make podcasts work most effectively for them. Greg Ness from Blue Lane Technologies on the August 28 Marketing Voices describes what he did to make the Master of IT series successful for Juniper. Greg created the Master of IT ...

I have spent more than two decades in technology marketing and have always been a big believer in candor and transparency with the “market”. As a General Manager at Regis McKenna in the 1980s and then later as a Marketing Partner of venture capital firm, Mayfield, I was ...

We’re kicking off a new interview series here at PodTech News, Web 2.0 Voices, and we’d love your ideas. Which companies are on your list of the Web 2.0 firms to watch? Who are the people behind the hot new startups? What companies have we not yet heard much about ...

Audio and video content is coming to mobile phones — although a new L.A. Times/Bloomberg Poll that Dennis Haarsager points to in his Technology360 blog suggests that the always-on generation isn’t so enthusiastic about getting audio and video content on their handsets. Certainly, as the pollsters ...

The Entertainment Software Association has announced that it is “scaling down” the E3 Expo, which was the largest game trade show in the country. The ESA wants the event to be more “personal.” Exactly what does that mean, you ask? Don’t expect to find ridiculously massive gaming booths, ...

In a conversation with Guy Kawasaki about Small is the New Big, Seth Godin compares the role of storytelling and customer dialogue in marketing.

A great example of story telling and customer dialogue is Tesla Motors’s blog entry by Elon Musk, eBay co-founder, CEO of SpaceX, and Tesla ...

Back in the Wild Wild West days of the Net (remember when it was called the “information superhighway”?), most individual contributors to the web were middle aged white males. Fast forward a decade later, and with the advent of free publishing tools and blogging, just about every demographic is ...

So Hitwise is reporting that del.icio.us traffic has doubled since the end of last year, which is quite impressive given the (apparently) low promotional support it has received from Yahoo since being acquired. The Hitwise report also highlights the valuable demographic that del.icio.us has been able to attract (25-34 ...

Critics, enthusiasts, and followers of social media have often pointed out social media’s lower barriers to entry compared to traditional media—it is precisely these lower barriers to entry that have made social media tools a compelling vehicle for educational technology.

In a recent post, Richard MacManus of Read/Write Web ...

Everyone has always wondered when is the iPod going to be a phone? Now there are hints from Steve Jobs according to the AppleInsider. Engadet has more on this story.

AppleInsider reports “One person familiar with the ongoings believes the Apple cofounder has commissioned the release of ...

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 ...