Small Business Trends has taken a look at Podcasting Trends for 2007 as related to small businesses. Although the interpretations pertain to small businesses, the facts are clearly valid no matter if you are B2B or B2C.
The author sites the growing sales in MP3 phones and players - together over 320 million in 2007 anticipated. [...]

I was trying out the new site hosting service called Terapad.com and I was completely bowled over. Now this is a great out of box experience for people who want to have an online shop and a blog at the same time!
Within a minute, I’d selected a template (six to choose from) and opened my [...]

Google’s blog service, Blogger, now offers support for custom domains.
If you already own a domain, Blogger can host the domain - for free. If you have an existing Blogger/blogspot blog, the old URL will be redirected to the new custom domain, automatically.
Blogger added a new feature: Bring your own domain. All you have to [...]

ComputerWorld’s Michael Gartenberg (who works for Jupiter Research) offers six valuable tips for success in business blogging:

Post early and often.
Link and converse. Part of the essence of a blog is the fact that it’s a conversation, not just a static diary.
Once it’s out there, it’s out there. When blogging, discretion truly is the [...]

I come into contact a lot with photographers and art directors. And they’re always looking at the latest catalogues from photo studios and stock photo libraries for inspiration. So why not find it in RSS feeds too?
I looked around on Google but was disappointed to find that the biggest stock libraries sxc.hu, corbis.com and gettyimages.com [...]

UC Berkeley is offering over 50 free courses available via iTunes (click here to launch their site in iTunes).

No matter where you live, you can access at no cost the very same courses attended by students paying full tuition. And, given the critical mass of courses being offered across a range of disciplines, you can [...]

Google News is a very comprehensive news aggregation of both news sources (4500 in total), as well as blogs.
Since part 1 of blogging is listening (part 2 being responding), you need to find easy ways to listen to what your customers are saying. Searching the web is an inefficient use of time. Google News [...]

You can improve the speed in which your post is picked up in search engines by "pinging."

Many blog authoring tools automatically ping one or more servers each time the blogger creates a new post (or updates an old one.) That is, the tool sends an XML-RPC signal to one or more "ping servers," which can [...]

Gary Bourgeault of Alphamarketer reports from a Hitwise analysis that Google has taken over Technorati for searches of blogs. He relates it to a simplification of the Google Blog Search user interface, taking the user to the search results page with one fewer click.
So make sure that your blog pings the Google Pinging Service to [...]