Nielsen NetRatings provides us an interesting study around podcasting:

“…6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast; 4.0 percent, or 5.6 million Web users, have recently downloaded a video podcast…These figures put the podcasting population on a par with those who publish blogs, 4.8 percent…”

I find it a bit odd though that they compare podcast downloaders with blog publishers. Shouldn’t they rather compare them to blog readers?

And one for the marketers:

“Podcasters Most Likely to Be Young, Apple Fans.”
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The place where executive assistants and secretaries can share their dark work secrets. Great stuff.
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Extortr allows you to upload a photo or video of someone and then blackmail them anonymously to go public with it if they don’t pay. Nice and simple spoof.
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We’re about to experience the birth of another Digg-like user-driven news site only this time with some serious backup from AOL. The site will soon move over to the netscape.com URL and meet there about 800m page views that Netscape already generates per month. And some sites will get into serious bandwidth trouble once their stories make it up on the ladder.
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The Radar tool enables you to share the pictures on your camera phone instantly with your friends over the internet without using a PC. Of course you’ll need a phone that has a camera and can acess the internet. Your friends can access the Radar page from their phone and browse and comment your pictures.
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Boomba is a social network site for cars - very well designed in true web 2.0 fashion.

After ‘eating’ the online word processing tool Writely Google is supposed to launch their spreadsheet tool tomorrow. Here’s a preview.