June, 2009
Audio Feedback
Listen! Always nice to be asked a question directly via audioboo and whilst I haven’t booed the reply (though that is coming), I thought I’d quickly answer the old fashioned way. We always saw audioboo as a platform in it’s own right (we didn’t actually add Twitter integration until after launch). And, whilst we thought [...]
John Berger, The British Library & Audioboo
I first came across John Berger as a teenager when reading “A Fortunate Man“, a remarkable book about the social role of a country doctor. Later on, when studying photography, his “Ways of Seeing” was already required reading. So it was already of interest to me to hear from The Guardian that he had agreed [...]
BBC6 & Audioboo at Glastonbury
If you’re not lucky enough to be off to the Glastonbury festival (24th – 28th June), then theres no need to worry since Adam & Joe from 6 Music will be there simply for you. Courtesy of the wonderfulness of audioboo. In a (commercial) deal with the BBC, the two presenters will be carrying audioboo [...]
We’re at 140conf
Next week sees the start of the huge Twitter focussed 140conf in New York. Tuesday to Wednesday (16/17th) will see a troupe of 140 characters – including our own @KLBarber, who’s representing Audioboo. But she’s back up by a noble brigade of UK folk - @RadioKate, @Documentally, @sizemore, @1indienation, @PhilCampbell, @dailytwitter and more – landing on the [...]
Audioboo mashups
We’ve been lucky at audioboo in that we very quickly attracted a core user base who really cared about the platform. They have tweeted, emailed or used our support forum to tell us what they want, what their problem might be or suggested new features. That’s been key to our progress so far. For instance, [...]