Tower School in Marblehead Massachussetts launched a great new website today

InspringGreen.com

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:

Flagship Adventures

Where we are next week:

ad:tech

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!”