We’re excited to announce the launch of BlogRadio 2.0. We’ve added:

• Enhanced photo viewing
• Easier to use mobile platform
• Location based blog suggestions

This week’s news (there’s just so much of it lately) is: we are now members of Alcatel Lucent’s ng Connect program. We’re in the program with big players like HP and Kyocera, as well as up and comers like Chumby.

Being a part of ng Connect will let us find synergies with other companies, helping us expand into new and exciting areas. We’re excited to see where this relationship will take us!

After biting our nails all morning, we found out that we received the 1st place award for the Productivity category in Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition. That means we win $30,000 to put toward making BlogRadio even more fantastic! Here’s a news story on the competition and winners.

“This award is further proof that we’re onto something at BlogRadio,” said Susan Payton, Vice President of Marketing, “To be recognized by such a world renowned mobile company is truly an honor.”

To see what else we’re up to, stay up to date with our media kit.

A few months ago we entered Nokia’s Calling All Innovators competition. We recently found out we are a finalist! We will find out next week at Nokia World if we won, but just to be a finalist is exciting enough.

We’ll keep you posted on whether we win, and all the exciting details of Nokia World next week.

Behind the scenes we always have a lot going on here at BlogRadio. One thing we’re really excited about this month is our new partnership with Nokia’s Daily Apps Blog.

Each week, the posts on this blog will be read with our new RealVoice. It’s an actual voice! This is a new service we’re launching, so look for more top blogs to offer it in coming months.

Here’s a post on The Daily App about us. Here you can hear a sample of what the Daily App posts will sound like.

Want to get The Daily App with RealVoice? Just add it to your BlogRadio feed, or download BlogRadio for the first time. It’ll be in the default list.

Just got back from MobileBeat, and boy my feet are tired. We didn’t win the startup competition, but there were still some great conversations about the mobile industry and where it’s headed that we got to participate in.

We’ve got some exciting news! We are officially launched in Nokia’s OVI store. Right now we’re only available on the N97 Mini, but will soon be available on all Nokia phones. So if you have an N97 Mini Nokia phone, you can now get your favorite blogs streamed as audio to your phone. Here’s our commercial. We’re very excited.

We’re excited to announce that we’ve been chosen as one of the top 20 finalists for MobileBeat’s Startup Competition! We’ve been invited to present BlogRadio at the conference next week to investors and analysts. We couldn’t be happier. Thanks to all of you who voted for us in the contest.

Here’s the official press release.

BlogRadio Chosen as MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition Finalist

San Francisco – PRWeb –Today MobileBeat 2010, hosted by VentureBeat, announced that BlogRadio is one of the 20 finalists in the MobileBeat 2010 Startup Competition. Proving that it has what it takes to stand out in the crowd, BlogRadio was picked by a panel of experts and advisors as one of the hottest companies in the mobile space.  As a finalist, BlogRadio gets its chance to present its App to over 450 influencers, investors, and press as they compete for the top spot and a coveted Tesla award.

BlogRadio allows users to listen to any blog, any place, any time, through its desktop and Smartphone applications (iPhone, Android and Nokia). The service, which is free, uses a text-to-speech platform to deliver an audio version of any blog or website copy.

“It’s an honor to be among the top 20 startups out of 200 at MobileBeat,” said Tirrell Payton, Co-Founder of BlogRadio, “We look forward to presenting our company to an audience interested in the mobile space.”

Hosted by VentureBeat, MobileBeat 2010 is taking place July 12-13 in San Francisco at The Palace Hotel. This year’s theme is “The Year of the Superphone and Who Will Profit” with top executives from AT&T, Google, Facebook, Samsung and many others sharing their thoughts. MobileBeat is known as Silicon Valley’s premier mobile event, bringing together 500 of the industry’s top VCs, mobile execs, journalists and entrepreneurs.  Many previous winners of the Startup Competition have gone on to become mobile juggernauts, including AdMob, Loopt and Touchnote.

There is still time to register for MobileBeat and see BlogRadio present in person.  Head here to find out the details:

http://events.venturebeat.com/mobilebeat2010/

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I (Tirrell) will be attending the Uplinq 2010 Conference in San Diego this week. I’m excited to see what’s new in the mobile space, and to see how BlogRadio can partner with other companies.

I’m looking forward to the keynotes by Qualcomm’s Paul Jacobs and AT&T’s David Christopher, as well as the technical sessions this Wednesday and Thursday.

If you’re going to be there, leave a comment so we can connect.

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BlogRadio has been nominated for several startup awards that we’re excited to share with you.

The first is VentureBeat’s MobileBeat Startup Competition. If we win this, we will be invited to present BlogRadio at the MobileBeat conference in July! This could be a big opportunity for us to meet potential partners and investors to grow BlogRadio as big as our dreams.

The second is Discovering Startups. They have a monthly contest for the most popular startup, so here’s your chance to show some support of BlogRadio! Not sure what we win, but prizes have been mentioned. Mainly we want to prove that we know what we’re doing and we have a future as a startup. So go vote for us today! Just one click.

If you’re going to Google I/O this year, head over to the Developer Sandbox. Our strategic partner, Adobe Systems, will be demonstrating our app for the Android throughout the show.

Unfortunately, we won’t be able to be there to meet you, so if you have any questions after the show, or are interested in setting up an interview, please contact Susan Payton.