Cool CleanTech events in Boston - It’s Clean Energy Week in the Commonwealth
http://greenovationconference.com/
Considering > http://missionfuture.trendpool.com/
Attending > http://www.newmediaexpo.com/
What I’m listening to…..
Sailing - http://podcast.com/show/3494/
Green - eco.podcast.com
Red Sox Baseball - http://podcast.com/show/17988/
We’re happy to report that Treedia Labs has been nominated for the AO Global 250 List - AlwaysOn’s Flagship List highlighting the top 250 private companies from across innovation. We were named to the NorthEast 100 during Venture Summit East, and with our global footprint we hope to make the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit where AlwaysOn will honor the Global 250 winners. I’ll post a link shortly so you can vote for us - It’s great to be nominated!
Check out Flagship Adventures new blog - Rib Eyes - My friend Andrew Savage has got a great gig going and now we can keep up to date with RIBs in Boston.
Here is what it’s all about:
Flagship Adventures, with locations at Pickering Wharf in Salem and The Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, is the East Coast’s premier provider of premium, specialized RIB events and charters, for both corporate and private clients. As a company, we have a passion for adventure and boating which we strive to pass on to each client through our commitment to providing unrivaled water-based adventures.
We are quietly opening up Videocast.com - come in and watch! There is a feedback button on the top of the page and we welcome your comments and suggestions - more to come later as we work out the kinks.
Tower School in Marblehead Massachussetts launched a great new website today
In the spirit of the schools Earth Day celebration, it features some of the environmental projects that Tower students and teachers have been working on recently. Among other things, the Tower School Environmental Committee is hosting a blog presenting current composting statistics, and public service announcements from Grade 4 - They will be adding content to this site on a regular basis, and hope that you return often. Over time Tower hopes other schools will contribute to this project, making the conversation more global
New feature on Podcast.com we just announced today - Corporate Channels - the release is below:
Podcast.com Launches Corporate Podcast Channels
PriceWaterhouseCoopers becomes first customer
Cambridge, MA, April 22, 2008 – Podcast.com, the premier podcast portal, announced today that Podcast.com now provides an opportunity for companies to get their own Corporate Podcast ChannelTM to provide businesses a way to aggregate the growing number of corporate podcasts that provide branding, awareness and educational experiences to customers and prospects of corporations. Additionally, the company announced its first Corporate Podcast Channel customer as PriceWaterhouseCoopers. The PWC Corporate Podcast Channel can be found at http://pwc.podcast.com.
A Corporate Channel is a dedicated channel on Podcast.com that allows businesses to leverage the built-in Podcast.com search engine optimization and gain access to the rapidly growing base of podcast consuming visitors to Podcast.com. Podcast.com Corporate Podcast Channels also provide companies with access to distribution of their content to hundreds of millions of Internet-connected devices including cell phones, portable Wifi devices and Internet radios. The combination is an unsurpassed “hyper-distribution” of the company’s content. Corporate Podcast Channels on Podcast.com also provide an opportunity to take many discreet corporate podcasts and provide one central aggregated portal to maximize company branding and educational efforts.
According to a recent study by Edison Media Research , audio podcasting usage continues to increase. Eighteen percent of Americans have listened to an audio podcast; up from 13 percent in 2007. Nine percent have listened to an audio podcast in the past month (an estimated 23 million people).
“The steady growth in the increase of the podcast audience presents a major opportunity for corporations to deliver their brand awareness and product messaging”, said Glenn Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer of Treedia Labs. “Podcasting represents a growing powerful medium that corporations can leverage as both a communications vehicle and a lead generator.”
For more information on Podcast.com’s Corporate Podcast Channels, visit http://treedia.com/channels or call +1.617.401.2417.
About Podcast.com:
Podcast.com is the premier podcast portal that provides access to a growing list of over 57,000 curated and constantly updated podcasts representing more than a million episodes of audio and video content. Podcast.com’s unique value proposition to content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, mobile phones, Internet radio and other Internet-connected devices. Visit us at http://podcast.com.
About Treedia Labs:
Treedia Labs is the leading developer of media aggregation and distribution platforms that provide feed management and distribution to any Internet connected device. The company’s core product, the Treedia Feed Management Platform™, powers a variety of downloadable media solutions including Podcast.com. Visit us at http://treedia.com.
Where we are this week:
The AlwaysOn Venture Summit East
Where my head is at for the summer:
Where we are next week:
The Treedia team received some great news last night at a reception by Northbridge Venture Partners at the ICA. We were selected as one of the AlwaysOn Northeast 100 for 2008.
Congrats to the team for kicking ass and taking names!!
The first-annual Northeast 100 list was compiled by the AlwaysOn editorial panel. In order to be eligible for the list, companies in the Northeastern United States had to be creating new business opportunities in high-growth markets, demonstrating significant market traction and pursuing game-changing technology in a key sector. AlwaysOn received hundreds of nominations for this year’s list.
“For the first annual elite Northeast 100 list we surveyed more than 500 venture investors, investment bankers, and technology insiders, who nominated hundreds of companies to determine the Northeast 100 winners,” said Tony Perkins, Founder and Editor, AlwaysOn Network. “Each of the Northeast 100 winners had to demonstrate leadership among their peers in the following areas: innovation, market opportunity, commercialization, media buzz, and stakeholder value creation. We congratulate them all on this great honor!”
We hit a big milestone last week - over 50,000 podcasts have been input into the system by listeners and viewers. The press release is below but since it was put out on the wire almost another 2,000 have been added - social media and podcasting are on a rocketship - HUZZAH!
Cambridge, MA, February 12, 2008 – Treedia Labs, a leading media aggregation and distribution company, announced today its Podcast.com portal surpassed 50,000 podcast programs. This gives the user of Podcast.com access to over 50,000 of the best podcast programs available today. A podcast is an audio or video program that is delivered on a downloadable file via the Internet.
Podcast.com provides its members with the ability to search, collect, play, create playlists and share audio and video podcasts.. Anyone interested in getting free access to over 50,000 podcast programs can visit http://podcast.com and click the “sign up” button.
Podcast.com provides members with a one-stop shop to sample and collect all of best programs that podcasting has to provide. Visitors can play the podcasts right from the site or choose to download or subscribe to their favorite podcasts to work with their own personal podcast playing device. Podcast.com also supports mobile devices such as cell phones and Sony’s PSP device.
“This goal post marks a tipping point for podcast aggregation,” said Duncan Perry, chief operating officer of Treedia Labs. “Podcast.com’s growing list of programs represents both commercial and independent producers along with a strong list of global flavors including podcasts produced in almost 20 languages.”
For more information visit http://podcast.com.
About Treedia Labs:
Treedia Labs is the leading developer of media aggregation and distribution platforms that provide feed management and distribution to any Internet connected device. The company’s core product, the Treedia Feed Management PlatformTM, powers a variety of downloadable media solutions including Podcast.com. Visit us at http://treedia.com.
About Podcast.com:
Podcast.com is the premier podcast destination that provides access to a growing list of over 50,000 curated and constantly updated podcast feeds representing more than 200,000 hours of audio and video content. Podcast.com’s unique value proposition to content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, multimedia devices and Internet radio. Visit us at http://podcast.com.
I’m at the conference right now - listening to Tim Draper - not a bad presentation - check out the live webcast here
We announced yesterday the top podcasts of 2007 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas - one curious fact was that only 2 shows were what I would consider ‘indie’ style podcasts - smaller new media companies or individuals taking advantage of the democratization of media and web 2.0 style publishing tools - this surprised me. Another was established media’s willingness to engage with us and ask for help in how they can broaden the footprint of their programs - very refreshing! Below is part of the release and list:
Treedia Labs, a leading media aggregation and distribution company, announced today its Podcast.com “Top 10 Podcasts of the Year” Award for 2007. Podcast.com is the premier podcast destination that provides access to a growing list of over 43,000 curated and updated podcasts representing more than 175,000 hours of audio and video content. Podcast.com’s unique solution for content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, mobile phones and other multimedia devices.
Each year, Podcast.com tallies the total number of times a program has been accessed by consumers. In 2007, Podcast.com tracked over one million podcast access connections via the Podcast.com portal. The top 10 Podcasts represent those items that were accessed the most in 2007.
Podcast.com’s Top 10 Podcasts of the Year Award recipients are:
- World Soccer Daily Podcast - independent
- CNN News Update - mainstream
- ESPN Radio Daily Podcast - mainstream
- Geek News Central Podcast - independent
- BBC’s Best of Today - mainstream
- NOVA - PBS - mainstream
- Slate Magazine Daily Podcast - mainstream
- 60 Minutes Podcast - The Full Broadcast - mainstream
- Face the Nation Podcast - mainstream
- CNET News.com Daily Tech News Podcast - independent
The complete list is also located at: http://podcast.com/home.php?subpage=_pages/top10_2007.php
This year’s winners are enjoying the sizeable and growing audiences of downloadable media consumption. According to Edison Media Research data from 2007, more than 37 million podcasts were accessed by consumers in the US. According to Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR), a group dedicated to measuring radio audiences in the UK, podcast listening increased 40-percent, to 2.7 million people throughout the UK in 2007.
“As Internet-connected mobile phones become more pervasive, podcast content represents one of the major formats that consumers are adopting as part of their daily media experience,” said Duncan Perry, chief operating officer of Treedia Labs.
“Podcast.com’s growing audience clearly values the content diversity being offered by both independent and mainstream media producers.”
For more information on the 2007 Top 10 Podcasts of the Year, visit www.podcast.com.
