Oral history with Audioboo
We’re always thrilled to hear from our users about the interesting and innovative ways they are using Audioboo. When Liam O’Hanrahan got in touch to tell us about the oral history project he was working on, I was fascinated and invited him to tell us more in his own words: Recycling Oral Histories with Audioboo I [...]
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How to: Enrich your blog
It’s the start of the new year and if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably made yourself some sort of promise about doing more, blogging more and creating more interesting content. But let’s be realistic about this, by the end of January that initial enthusiasm may be waning and you’re only going to keep it [...]
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Audioboo loves Radio(player)
Audioboo loves radio! Of course we do, it’s a fantastically personal, creative and flexible medium – just like Audioboo! Today we’re really excited to announce we are teaming up with the nice folk at UK Radioplayer to take radio listening to the next level. Working in conjunction with the Radioplayer team, we’re enabling radio stations [...]
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It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas!
There’s not much sign of snow in Southwark, where Audioboo HQ is based, so it’s doubtful that 2011 bring a white Christmas. That doesn’t mean we can’t get into the festive spirit, and we’ve been helped along by lots of members of the Audioboo family, sharing their Christmassy audio with us. From testing out the [...]
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Sounds of Southwark
Audioboo has been out and about talking to a lot of journalism students about increasing importance of multimedia journalism and storytelling and how Audioboo is a simple way for them to develop both of these skills. We were lucky enough to snag journalism student Thomas Lowe from City University and have him join us at [...]
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2 minutes of silence
At 11am today Audioboo will be joining millions of people and observing a two minute silence for Armistice Day. During those two minutes you won’t be able to upload content via our web browser. We hope that this doesn’t inconvenience you too much and that you will be able to join us in a moment [...]
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Steve Jobs
Thought we’d post this boo from Stephen Fry on Steve Jobs from a month ago on a day which has been a sad one indeed. He was, despite everything, a great, inspirational man and we will truly miss him. Share this post:
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HTML5, WordPress.com players
We’re excited to announce the beta release of embeddable players for WordPress.com and HTML5 specific devices, such as phones and tablets. The HMTL5 version also allows you to view any image or location data enclosed with the audio. And the WordPress version, although still Flash, at least answers the pleas of numerous users to be [...]
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Audioboo Plus!
Hooray! Audioboo Plus is here and ready to be released to the masses. No longer will have to curtail your musings to fit the free account limit! Never again will you have to contemplate where to host your podcasts or worry about streaming and bandwidth limits. Audioboo Plus makes podcasting so simple that you can [...]
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New things to play with!
Posted on November 14, 2011 by RadioKate
Here at Audioboo HQ we often get asked the best way to gain more Audioboo followers, to which I offer several responses. The first, is that Audioboo is more like YouTube and Flickr than Twitter, i.e. the number of followers you have doesn’t necessarily reflect the number of people enjoying your content. Think about how [...]
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