03.12.06
Posted in Internet Users, Podcasting / Podcasts at 7:14 pm by Administrator
Daily Show with Jon Stewart Now on iTunes
Comedy Central’s series “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” are now available on the iTunes Music Store. The series are available at $1.99 per episode or via a new “Multi-Pass” feature on iTunes that lets fans buy the next month’s worth of 16 new episodes for $9.99.
“We are excited that ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ are now available to download on the iTunes Music Store,” said Michele Ganeless, executive vice president and general manager, Comedy Central. “Fans of the most trusted names in fake news can now take Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert with them everywhere they go.”
“Our newest feature ‘Multi-Pass’ gives fans the ability to purchase a block of 16 episodes of these hit programs during the current season and have them delivered automatically to their computer after they air on TV,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of iTunes.
Source: Comedy Central
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Posted in Internet Business, Marketing, Podcasting / Podcasts, Software and Web Apps at 7:06 pm by Administrator
Audion has released Podcast Station, a new podcast audio production and publishing program. Podcast Stations’ on screen buttons let users assign commentary, music, sound effects, and interviews in a variety of file formats (MP3, WAV, WMA and AIFF). Content can then be mixed and saved for uploading and play on personal computers and mobile devices.
Podcast Station supports publishing online with RSS, iD3 and iTunes support.
A trial download is available.
“Podcast Station makes producing a show easy. Having the ability to pre-set your music, jingles, sound bites and effects, mix them on the fly, produce and then publish your program to the net is absolutely what it’s all about“ says Audion Laboratories CEO Charlie Brown.
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Podcast Station is based on the company’s VoxPro PC recording and editing software platform, used in radio broadcast news and on-air studios.
More information and a trial download are available at the Podcast Station site.
Podcast Production software Article originally found via Podcasting News
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Posted in Internet Users, Podcasting / Podcasts at 5:32 pm by Administrator
AtomFilms Intros Podcast and Services for Portable Media Players
AtomFilms has announced AtomFilms To Go, a new service that makes its original short film and animation content available for download and playback on various mobile platforms, including the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, Apple iPods and PCs.
AtomFilms To Go is premiering with 10 titles, including Street of Pain, a comedy starring Steve Carell (The Forty Year Old Virgin). The site plans to add weekly.
The films are available for direct download, and are also available formatted for video iPods as the AtomFilms to Go video podcast.
“Eight years ago, AtomFilms began building a library of the best bite-sized entertainment, recognizing that it was perfectly suited for digital distribution,” said Atom Entertainment, Inc. CEO Mika Salmi. “AtomFilms To Go enables consumers to extend that AtomFilms “entertainment snacking” experience so they can enjoy our shorts on every device.”
The company has partnered with the entertainment industry’s most innovative and entertaining talent including JibJab, Aardman Animations, Joe Cartoon and more, to acquire and develop many of the Internet’s biggest hits, building a monthly audience of more than 5 million consumers.
The following shorts are among the 10 titles currently available for download via AtomFilms To Go: Street of Pain — a dodgeball comedy featuring “The 40 Year Old Virgin,” Steve Carell; Consent — a “safe and legal sex” comedy by Jason Reitman, director of the upcoming feature film “Thank You For Smoking”; Your Face — a classic, Academy Award nominated animation from Bill Plympton; Rockfish — action-packed computer generated animation; being developed into a feature film voiced by Vin Diesel; Cheney’s Got a Gun — a musical parody chronicling the Veep’s recent hunting misadventure.
Upcoming AtomFilms To Go releases will include a selection of AtomFilms’ hits, current film festival favorites, and worldwide premieres of original projects developed by AtomFilms Studio.
Sources: AtomFilms to Go, originaly found via podcasting news rss feed.
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Posted in Software and Web Apps at 5:21 pm by Administrator
Mergemill Static Database Web Site Publishing
A great new tool for web site developers. Simple, affordable, and very good at what it was created for.
From their web site:
We developed Mergemill to fill many gaps in the database publishing process. It is particularly well suited to publishing large amount of information on the Web or CD, and for quickly building websites or parts of websites which do not need to present contents dynamically according to user responses.
Mergemill is a static web publishing and database tool that merges templates with data feeds to generate your desired output files, quickly and easily. It brings you many benefits:
Scripting with Mergemill’s tags in templates is far easier than developing a database-driven web application.
Any web host can serve your website.
Your website performance is far better.
You may easily manage your contents in text files, spreadsheets or databases.
You may identify the most common browse paths and use Mergemill to generate easy links on your web pages. This creates a better experience for your visitors. Doing this dynamically may cause a big performance impact on your website.
You make it very easy for search engines to index your site, which will boost your search result rankings and therefore traffic to your website.
The generated pages can be easily viewed locally with a web browser, and so are perfect for distribution on CD-ROMs.
Your database can be kept offline, which eliminates many security and data privacy issues.
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Posted in General at 5:13 pm by Administrator
Create an RSS Feed With Excel
An idea hit me and I googled it, then wham. It’s been made; an application for creating rss feeds from an excel spreadsheet (In Dec of 2004 no less!). Over at Automate Excel, Mark William Wielgus, a Microsoft Certified Excel Exper,t has created a little application that runs in excel and creates a basic rss feed with ease. This app appears to be pretty customizable and is a great way to get spreadsheet info into rss / xml format.
From the Automate Excle web site:
If you are a website owner without an RSS feed (most Excel Sites) and is capable of logging the Title, Link, and Short Description of your latest article in an Excel spreadsheet, you can now offer your users updates via RSS.
Also, since people are notorious for keeping lists in Excel, if you would like to syndicate those lists, the following could be manipulated to do so(with some VBA know-how of course).
Read more and download the free RSS / Excel app at Automate Excel.
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03.09.06
Posted in Marketing, Podcasting / Podcasts at 3:35 am by Administrator
Podcasting Worth Millions but Not Yet Mainstream
Interesting article from podcasting-tools.com points to some intersting numbers. We believe that much is lost in the quick translation of numbers however. They compare 50 million podcast listeners to 200 million radio listeners… It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that 10 million podcast listeners may be more valuable to advertisers, especially niche advertisers, than 200 million radio listeners. The demographics of radio listeners are often not what is being sought after, and podcast listeners are more likely to have more money to spend, amongst other things.
Podcasting also offers the ability to give marketers, uh, make that consumers, video along with audio (more and more podcasts or becoming videocasts), and calls to action with podcasting is often easier to ensure than a fleeting radio ad someone hears in the car. Podcast advertising also offers smaller niche based marketing an easy affordable avenue to target unique groups of listeners, and when done right listeners will appreciate the related information rather than considering it an interuption to thier entertainment experience, as is often the rule with radio advertising.
From podcasting-tools.com:
Podcasting has a long ways to go before it becomes a mainstream medium, but is poised to grow exponentially through the end of the current decade and will increasingly become an attractive outlet for advertisers, says a new report from eMarketer.
By 2008, podcast advertising should reach $150 million, approaching $300 million by 2010, according to the report.
Currently, despite all the hype surrounding the nascent medium, eMarketer estimates that just 3 million Americans are active podcast listeners, and a total of 10 million people have ever downloaded a podcast to date.
And advertising on podcasts, “is in its infancy to put it mildly,” says Mike Chapman, eMarketer editorial director, who authored the report. “Podcasting is not set to become a new mass-market venue, at least for the next half decade. By way of comparison, U.S. broadcast radio still reaches close to 200 million Americans,” he said.
However, the number of podcast listeners is expected to skyrocket over the next four years, reaching 50 million total listeners by 2010, with 15 million or so listeners being described as active - i.e. downloading podcasts on a weekly basis.
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