I hadn’t heard of TalkShoe until my fave podcasters, the Manic Mommies, used this technology for their weekly podcast to do their first call in show, and I had to investigate. The description from the application developer’s site states it far better than I could:
“TalkShoe is a service that enables anyone to easily create, join, or listen to Live Interactive Discussions, Conversations, Podcasts and Audioblogs.” Additionally, TalkShoe has an open API so that others can easily integrate its features into their own solutions.

So if you’ve got something to say, and you’d rather say it than type it – this is the tool for you.

This tool crosses over many interests that I rant about on this blog – marketing, technology, and iPhone apps. Okay, technically it’s not an app but if you steer your iPhone web browser to http://iphone.talkshoe.com/, you’ll view a customized web page made specifically for using this service on your Apple gadget.

The uses of this service are many – you can schedule a call and have up to 250 people together at once (and you can even use your Facebook, MySpace, Meebo to post info to your friends and schedule a call directly with your friend list) or you could use this software and service to record and post your own podcast. Very tempting … luckily I don’t have any extra time in my day to do this. If you plan on pod-casting on a regular basis, there’s even a way to monetize your podcast by building a subscriber base and marketing to them with Blubrry, and the Talk Shoe Cashprogram.

Aside from using this tool to promote yourself and your services from your blog or web page, you can also use it to do research and collect information. Browse the listing of shows live, and you’ll see hundreds of entries on everything from metaphysical therapy to women who do too much to a show that takes it’s political stance from Logan’s Run.

As a podcast addict, I’m loving TalkShoe – it’s a great way for me to search for new content. And maybe at some point in the future when my littlest is out of diapers, I’ll be using this service to speak to y’all instead of type.