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Coming Soon: A Free Open Source Social Network with the Power and Flexibility of WordPress

I’ve been watching with much anticipation the whisperings about a project called BuddyPress that “will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.” This would be extremely cool. Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, has now taken BuddyPress into their fold to see its development through. I can’t wait to see this thing release.

This would allow you to create your own branded social network with the flexibility of WordPress. In addition, it would be compatible with thousands of free plugins that are sure to pop up–very cool indeed.

Free Video Quickly Shows Your Audience What a Podcast Is and How to Subscribe

Apple has produced a short video that explains what a podcast is and how to subscribe (in iTunes of course). They invite you to link to it from your web site as a resource. It would be much cooler if I could post it to my own site, but of course they want the inbound links. I wouldn’t mind something like this from the Zune team as well ;).

WordPress.com Becomes a Viable Free Starter Podcasting Solution

It’s no secret that I’m a huge WordPress fan. While I’m a proponent of installing it on your own web site, WordPress.com (their free hosted service) has now become an excellent choice for a hobbyist or “dabbler” to have a blog, feed and now at least modest media hosting.

They’ve upgraded their free service to provide 3 GB of storage. Files are hosted on Amazon S3 and bandwidth is not metered meaning you won’t be penalized for the amount of traffic you get. I’ll be revamping my podcast tutorial to use WordPress.com as a free starter solution.

Libsyn Updating Stats for More Accuracy and Better Interface

Libsyn recently announced that they have revamped the user interface for their podcast statistics. They are also going back through and reprocessing the old logs to improve accuracy. As soon as reprocessing is done, the new stats and interface will be released.

A New Essential Video Podcasting Guide Coming to Bookstores Near You

Rich Harrington, who I have the pleasure of presenting with at various events, is the co-author of a new book

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This post starts a new feature on my blog called New Media Digests. These will be regular posts (probably 3-4 times per month) that quickly summarize the most important links, headlines and resources related to the new media world to keep you up to date in a matter of a few minutes.

I’m constantly monitoring a number of blogs, news feeds and other internet chatter to keep up on our lightning fast industry. Many times a week I find myself thinking, “I should blog about that.” The problem is that I don’t have time to write a complete post about every little thing I discover nor do you have time to read all those posts. I could just do one of the del.icio.us bookmark auto-posts, but that doesn’t tell you why I thought it was important or why I wanted to share it with you.

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