Awakened Voice

Speaking of acquisitions in the social media space, I got an email this morning announcing that Google had purchased hosted wiki service JotSpot. Is there no end to the acquisitions that Google can (and will) make? Probably not given their market capitalization.
According to the email, “Google shares JotSpot’s vision for helping people collaborate, share and [...]

I’ve been very busy over the last week attending to my Raw Voice duties, but I still hope to keep up with and deliver the latest and greatest on social media.
To that end I see that WordPress version 2.0.5 has been released into the wild. This news comes from the WordPress Dev Blog.
According to their [...]

News out today that podcast host LibSyn has been bought by Wizzard Software.
Wizzard is the company that purchased burgeoning podcast host SwitchPod a couple of months back.
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As with any new industry there are many entrants who rush to be on the cutting edge of new markets and technology. I one heard that there were thousands of car companies in the U.S. in the early days of the automobile. Now we’re down to a handful of American car companies. Will this be [...]

Today must be an announcement day. Shel and Neville took the wraps off of their Crayon social media consultancy. Congrats gents!
I’ve got a bit of news as well. I’m taking over the marketing duties and working with the folks at Raw Voice. I’ll tell the story on how this came about very soon. Let me [...]

I spend a lot of time implementing and tweaking WordPress so it was only fitting that I start attending the local WordPress meetup group in New York City.
They had a gathering on Saturday so I dropped in to meet some local WordPressers. Little did I know that Barry from Automattic would be in from San [...]

My bad. Fruitcast and Castfire are still going strong. Both had blogs that were inaccessible which I took to mean that there was no more news and therefore nothing happening.
James from Forty Media corrected me on the last post. And now Christoph from Castfire has chimed in as well with these comments:“It’s been a long [...]

Auto insertion advertising player Fruitcast has temporarily shut down operations. A visit to their website yields nothing but the image to the left of this post.
A surf over to the Fruitcast Blog yields the old 404. If there is indeed something more coming then why not keep the blog going?
Fruitcast isn’t the only ad [...]

Internet Explorer 7 is out and it includes some nifty features that allow people to discover and subscribe to RSS feeds in the browser. I’ve been testing the beta for months and recognized that the RSS functionality is a very important new feature.
Apparently Walt Mossberg from The Wall Street Journal doesn’t think so. I read [...]

We’re a month out from another big podcasting conference. PodcastCon UK gives the European folks a chance to gather and talk about podcasting and social media.
According to their official website, “PodcastCon 2006 will include more time for everyone attending to network, chat, discover and inspire each other. What’s more there’ll be top quality insight and [...]