Quick Blogcast Morphs 2 Easy-to-Use Blog & Podcasting Tools
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.
(Aug. 15, 2007) – Forget old-fashioned diaries and “snail mail,” the
new way to communicate about your daily activities, your life or your
business is to create a blog, a podcast or both
online. GoDaddy.com is making it easier to do by combining two of its
already popular products, Quick Blog and Quick Podcast, into one simple
tool.
“Quick
Blogcast allows people to tell their own stories with audio, video,
photos and text over the Internet,” said Warren Adelman, President and
Chief Operating Officer of Go Daddy, the world’s leading domain name
registrar and seller of a variety of Internet products. “It’s a great
way to let people around the corner or around the world know what you
or your business are doing.”
Blogging
has become an increasingly popular way for people to communicate to a
large audience. About 1.4 new blogs are created every second of every
day, according to Technorati, a blog trend analyst that is now tracking
more than 97 million blogs worldwide. According to the Pew Internet and
American Life Project, most blog writers say they use a blog to
document their personal experiences and share them with others. Some
bloggers have even gained enough credibility to be regarded as news
sources in areas like politics and technology.
Go Daddy’s new Quick Blogcast is ideal for professionals who want to share ideas or promote their companies.
It’s also great for those who want to publish text and syndicate audio
or video content. For example, small business owners can use Quick
Blogcast to turn their already-made videos into broadcasts that
demonstrate and discuss their new products, with a text description of
the products right next to the video. Teachers, motivational speakers
and others can use Quick Blogcast to record and distribute lectures
online.
Quick
Blogcast was created, thanks to feedback from Go Daddy customers. It
features more than 50 different design templates that can be modified
and customized to reflect your personal taste. Quick Blogcast lets you
blog remotely from your mobile phone or PDA. It gives you a way to
weave in news stories and other content from “Really Simple
Syndication” (RSS) feeds. It also allows several authors to have joint
access to one blog. All of these features can help even beginning
bloggers to create professional-looking Web logs.
Anyone
can use Quick Blogcast to create a journal and communicate with
extended family members and friends they don’t get to see very often.
With just a microphone, a computer and Quick Blogcast, users can create
their own audio recordings to share with others over the Internet. Quick Blogcast can also help users share their home movies and videos.
For example, video of a child’s birthday party or footage of a family
road trip can be posted with Quick Blogcast so grandparents can watch
it from their own home computer miles away. The videos can also be
combined with a blog, so you can read about the family trip and watch
the video all in one place.
Quick Blogcast can also be used with other products from GoDaddy.com,
so you can better keep in touch with friends and family. Just buy a
domain name, set up a Web site and e-mail, and use QuickBlogcast to
start recording your stories for broadcasting. Business owners can use
the same products to improve communications with current and
prospective customers.
About The Go Daddy Group, Inc.
Go
Daddy is a leading provider of services that enable individuals and
businesses to establish, maintain and evolve an online presence. Go
Daddy provides a variety of domain name registration and Web site
hosting services, as well as a broad array of on-demand and other
services. The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 23 million domain
names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a
domain name every 1.3 seconds. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain
name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also
rated the world's largest hostname provider according to Netcraft Ltd.
During 2006, The Go Daddy Group registered approximately one-third of
all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains,
or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info.
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