The International Podcasting Expo is almost underway, and a new 6 minute online video tour of the Expo site is now available. Sponsors include Click & Buy (the Official Payment Provider and Sponsor of the Podcast Marketing Expo Hall), Feedburner (Sponsor of the RSS Services Expo Hall), and PRWeb (the Official Newswire). The prizes and giveaways for the online, around-the-clock event are mounting as Exhibitors and Sponsors offer freebies for Expo Attendees.

Gecko Tribe, LLC has released updates to CaRP, the popular RSS to HTML converter, enabling websites to display content from newsfeeds using podcast and Media RSS technology, as well as feeds in a wider variety of languages. Webmasters looking for automatically updating, search engine friendly content can use CaRP to convert RSS feeds to HTML and integrate it seamlessly into their webpages. The recent enhancements to CaRP enable it to display images from feeds using Media RSS extensions, such as those published by the Flickr photo tagging service, and to display icons linking to the audio files pointed to by podcast feeds. Internationalization enhancements include automatic conversion and proper multi-byte character handling of feeds published in a wide variety of character encodings such as those used by Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and many other newsfeeds