March, 2009
Wanna Talk? – Comments are here
We’ve just pushed the latest release to the server and it’s what a lot of you have been asking for – comments. Just in time, it seems, since today has seen some serious audio play offs between ‘Vision‘ and ‘Sexyboo‘. Let’s hope that being able to respond both in writing and by a boo will [...]
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The Guardian gets into Audioboo
I’m assuming it was one of those last minute ‘oh, I’ve forgotten my mp3 recorder what can I do but call @jemimakiss‘ deals but it’s kinda neat that the The Guardian here in the UK used audioboo today to cover the protests centered around the G20 Summit. It was all done by a journalist called [...]
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Boo Radio
It might be guessable from the address of the website – audioboo.fm – that when we were thinking about the Audioboo concept, radio had a big part in that. Spoken word radio is great but it’s sadly in deep decline – at least here in the UK. We’re lucky to have the excellent Radio 4 [...]
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Progress 25th March 2009
Well, that’s rather nice progress isn’t it. We’ve inserted geo-location data into the Atom and RSS feeds. That means we can do realtime updates on where people are booing if they have their location turned on. Be kinda interesting for tourist information, travel guides and more. We’ve also enabled basic searching by tags. Clicking a [...]
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What’s new at Audioboo?
We’re beginning to get some flak for the navigationability of the website and I have to say we totally agree. To put it in context, we made a decision early on to pour the effort into the API and mobile app. We wanted to be able to capture as much content early on before making [...]
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Javascript for embedding boos
I don’t pretend to know what the stuff below means but I’ve been told that it will allow you to embed your boos on your own site. There’s a WordPress plugin at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/audioboo-wp/ for those of you on that great platform. Anyway, there are 2 parts to it. This bit lets you create a list of [...]
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Audioboo is Live
As of Friday 13th of March, Audioboo is in the App Store. It took a while (that’s another story) but the girl is up and running. We debated long and hard about releasing this version, since there’s a much better one in the works and the website needs a fair amount of work. But we [...]
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