TalkShoe this afternoon released a major upgrade to their live podcasting platform, one that allows for a call to be created mobile, on the fly and independent of a connection to the web.

CEO Dave Nelson posted the details to the company blog today:

So now you can do a movie review as you leave the theater, inform your audience about a breaking news story, or tell your friends about a hot new restaurant while the taste is still on your tongue.

Online web video streaming outfit Mogulus launched their premium offerings today with the availability of Mogulus Pro.

The new professional service allows users to remove the ads that are inserted by the company (though you can put your own in, if you choose), gives you detailed analytics, HD and Widescreen streaming capabilities, and the removal of all Mogulus company branding.

WordPress is quickly becoming the standard software for the majority of blogs.  This fact makes every major release of the software seem like a huge event, but the thing is that this time it is.  WordPress 2.7 comes with a huge number of changes, a good chunk of them making some older plugins redundant. This will be a huge upgrade for all blog owners.

The following lists 20 of the biggest changes coming, but all together there have been over 400 changes to the program this time around. Any way you slice it, there is a little bit of something for everyone in this release.  Take a look through and you’re sure to find something that appeals to you.

Google Reader has just launched a major redesign to its interface, addressing many of the top concerns of users of the popular RSS reader.

In addition to simply looking way more clean and inviting, Google has introduced more collapsible navigation options, a new section for friends, additional feed bundles, and perhaps most welcoming to power users: the option to hide those intimidating unread items counts, which can quickly swell to hundreds or the dreaded “1,000+” when one spends more than a few hours away from the service.

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Circle of Moms is a social network publicly debuting today for online moms looking to connect with other moms. With an already active community of 850,000+ members, Circle of Moms is your typical destination social network site, with features including photos and video, user-created groups, a LinkedIn-like Q&A section, virtual gifts, and of course user profiles where moms can input profiles of their kids to create a more dynamic site experience.

Facebook Connect is now open for business, allowing any developer to let users login to their websites using their Facebook credentials. Additionally, other key Facebook features, like your friends list, can now be integrated into third-party applications, which can in turn send data back into Facebook and the News Feed.

If there were an OpenID for Dummies book, its publisher would be Facebook Connect, because for all intents and purposes, it’s the same thing, at least to 99.9% of end users who experience it. For an example of how it works, the new Citysearch beta, which launched a couple weeks ago, allows users to use their Facebook login to write reviews and leave comments. Those actions are then broadcast back to the Facebook News Feed.

Google Friend Connect, the company’s identity management offering for developers, is now available for anyone to signup without waiting to be whitelisted. Similar to Facebook Connect and MySpace Data Availability, the basic premise is that you can login with your Google (or Yahoo, AIM, OpenID) credentials on third-party applications without signing up for a separate account.

You can see this in action right here on the sidebar of Mashable, where you can join our community using your Google credentials. You can also invite other people to join from within the application, either by emailing them (you’ll see a list of your Google contacts) or sharing the links on MySpace or Facebook.

Flickr has just rolled out a new mobile site, adding some significant improvements to its interface as well as adding a few new features you can now use on-the-go. Additions include video playback (on devices that support it), as well as the ability to add new contacts, favorite images, and make changes to privacy settings from m.flickr.com.

Some of these features were already available in beta to iPhone users, but Flickr indicates that with today’s launch, they’ll also be accessible on devices using other mobile browsers including Opera Mini, Firefox Mobile and Webkit.

I’ve been following Opera’s new releases quite closely, and whether it’s one of the mobile versions of the browser or the desktop Opera, one cannot say they aren’t active. The numbers, unfortunately, just aren’t on their side: regardless of having a great feature set and being very fast, the desktop version of Opera just isn’t gaining significant traction.

Opera’s next big release, Opera 10, raises expectation merely by its round version number, and now there’s an alpha version for everyone to try out. The new Presto 2.2 engine should bring speedier browsing, and even better adherence to W3C standards. Furthermore, there’s an inline spelling checker and auto updating, but these features are hardly a novelty since Firefox already has them both. Finally, Opera Mail has been improved, as well as widget support for Linux.

There’s a new “gPhone” on the market, but its name is not G1, and it’s not subsidized by one of the wireless carriers. It’s called the Kogan Agora (or Agora Pro), and it’s available for pre-order now from an Internet-only manufacturer/retailer in Australia.

What’s interesting about the device – aside from the fact that most would probably agree it’s aesthetically an improvement from the G1 – is that it’s the first example of the actual vision for Android – an open source mobile operating system that any developer can use to build their own device.