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.

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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 ...

“What would you want to give to your audience?” asked Charlene Li of companies who are using blogging as a marketing tool. The Forrester Research analyst spoke on a panel about corporate blogging at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit on the Stanford University campus. Li talked with PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau ...

SUNNYVALE, August 4, 2006 (PodTech News) – Yahoo, Inc. jumped on the corporate blogging bandwagon Wednesday with the launch of an official mouthpiece called
Yodel Anecdotal. The title of the blog’s first post, “Yet Another Self-Serving Corporate Blog!” pokes fun at the concept of official corporate blogging, while ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, July 31, 2006 (PodTech News) – More than 700 people attended BlogHer 2006, the second annual conference of women bloggers, held this past weekend in San Jose. According to a recent study published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 46% of the 12 million Americans who ...

Famed Analyst, Investor and Silicon Valley Guru, Andy Kessler on the “End of Medicine”. Andy Kessler, the guy behind the books Wall Street Meat and Running Money, just published a new book End of Medicine. Andy, who has been a wildly successful analyst and investor can smell the ...

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MENLO PARK, CA. (June 12, 2006) — PodTech.Network, Inc., a leading emerging- media company today announced that Robert Scoble, well-known Microsoft evangelist, world-renowned blogger and Microsoft’s first videoblogger, is joining the company as Vice President of Media ...

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. ...

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PodTech Announces Premier of PodSummit™

PodSummit™ Showcases Leaders of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship

MENLO PARK, CA (April 20, 2006) PodTech, a media company dedicated to podcasting and ...

Kaboodle nets an A round of funding. I happy about this because I had the pleasure of interviewing Manish Chandra on PodTech Podcast in February at my good friends Mike Arrington’s house.

Manish is a nice guy and student of entrepreneurship. Congrats to Manish ...

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 ...