First, it was blogs. Then music, pictures and videos. Now Myspace is adding yet another cool toy to their resume: Podcasting.

For those of you who might have been living under a rock for the past few years, Podcasting has been revolutionizing the Internet. Not only are people using it to add a personal touch to their websites, but professors have even been using them to aid in their lectures.

Up until now, MySpace has been quite anonymous. Sure, you can put pictures of yourself on there, but that was about it. Now, thanks to a company called WildVoice, you can actually hear a person’s voice once you log on to their page.

“Social networking is all about personalization in the often anonymous cyber world,” says Michael Levy, co-founder of WildVoice. “Nothing is more intimate than hearing a person’s actual voice, and WildVoice has worked to help Podcasters add a personal broadcast message to virtually any blog or social network.”

There are a number of ways to create a Podcast and add it to your blog, according to a release sent out. The first is with something called Wildvoice Shout. This is a simple voicemail-type recorder that allows you to create your Podcast from the WildVoice Web site. And if you want to have more of a professional sound, there’s WildVoice Studio. This is a Windows application that allows a person to add theme music and sound effects to their Podcast. Once you’re done, WildVoice will then walk you through a simple process to post your MP3 to the WildVoice Web site.

Once that is completed, WildVoice will generate a HTML code that will enable you to be copied and added to your MySpace page, or wherever you want it to go. This will embed a WildVoice player into your site that will play your very own broadcast. WildVoice also allows you to edit your broadcast, so that you can have it either play continously or only when the page loads. You can also customize the look of your player.

“The explosion of portable media player like the iPod is turning traditional media on its head,” says Levy. “Podcasting is one of the new media trends being driven by the availability of portable media players and broadband Internet access. Podcasting is very exciting. We created WildVoice.com and our WildVoice T Studio software for people who wanted a fun and easy way to create and share Podcasts. The purpose of the WildVoice services is to make it easy for anyone to be heard on the Internet.”

And the revolution isn’t just for MySpace and bloggers. Others can find benefits in WildVoice’s service as well. “Ministers have used WildVoice to publish sermons,” says Levy, “medical professionals have used WildVoice to provide general information for patients, song writers are publishing their work and small businesses have used WildVoice to communicate to their customers. Even students have used WildVoice to publish college projects in the form of Podcasting.”

And the best part? It’s free. In fact, a number of users have already jumped on the bandwagon and add Podcasts to their MySpace pages by using the WildVoice software. You can check it out at www.myspace.com/jimbolito. And if you want to make your own Podcast, or just check out more about WildVoice, go to their website at www.wildvoice.com.

“We believe Podcasting is real,” Levy says, “and personal audio programs will continue to grow in popularity. And we still have many features we consider critical to our vision that we are working on.”