August, 2011
Travel tips, lawnmowers and ‘Remember Me’: It’s the week at AudiobooHQ (w/c 22.8.11)
Jon’s been busy and has fixed the ‘Remember Me’ function on the website, the rest of us were told we were too young to go on a wine tasting session, and we helped the UK Foreign and Common Wealth Office collect some travel tips – despite the usual downpour in time for the Bank Holiday [...]
Open source, storytelling and a goat cam: It’s the week at BooHQ (08.08.11)
Lots going on in the office this week! We’ve open-sourced the Android app code, I had a tour of a police car, Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf’s Kryten) began to release his book via Audioboo and we launched the Settle Storytelling competition. Hear the full story: Open source, storytelling and a goat cam: It”s the week [...]
Calling all storytellers
The art of storytelling is widely celebrated throughout history and a multitude of different cultures, and Audioboo give you the chance to simply record and share your stories with the world. With this in mind, Audioboo has teamed up with the Settle Storytelling Festival to launch a storytelling competition, so it’s time to dust off [...]
Reflecting on the riots – a busy Week at Boo HQ (w/c 08.08.11)
Well it certainly wasn’t my usual week at work. With riots breaking out across the country, Audioboo became a great place for people to tell their stories, share their thoughts and post their content. We served tea to police, listened to impassioned rants and got-to-be-heard-to-be-believed interviews with looters, heartbreaking stories and police updates. Not to [...]
Speaking out against the UK riots
As 16,000 officers were drafted in to London last night, things in the capital seem a little bit calmer, but riots reached other parts of the country, with lethal consequences in Birmingham. Here are the latest Audioboos that have been tagged with #UKriots – please keep sharing your stories and adding in geolocation data too [...]
London riots continue, Londoners pull together
I’m writing this from my local community centre where local residents have banded together to create a makeshift canteen for the police. Apparently Waltham Forest doesn’t have a canteen for them, and since they are working such long and difficult hours we wanted to do our bit. Make tea not war. #awesomestow residents provide a [...]
London’s Burning
As I woke this morning to find that the Tottenham riots had arrived on my doorstep, I worried about what might unfold this evening. I had no idea that things would escalate in quite the way that they have done. It’s half past one in the morning and I’m literally watching live images my city [...]
Air-guitar, Cornish Britney Spears and Bletchley Park: The Week at Boo HQ (w/c 1.8.11)
It’s been a busy week at Boo Towers – first it was breaking a world record in air-guitar and then it was talking to WWII codebreakers at Bletchley Park. We certainly get around! Catch-up with all the latest news – Mixlr integration, European Podcast Award opportunities and what to wear while walking in Britain. It’s [...]
Are you a winner?
Could your Audioboo stream win you a coveted prize in the European Podcast Awards? There’s only one way to find out – enter! Dave Thackeray, the UK ambassador for the awards has been in touch to let us know that Europe-based Audioboo users with at least three boos are eligible to enter the European Podcast [...]