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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.
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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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BooMail is live
Audioboo has always been about creating the simplest way to create and share audio. To date, you can record via the iPhone, Android and selected Nokia devices. You can also record/upload via the website. To that we are now adding email support. All you have to do is send a blank email to boomail@audioboo.fm and [...]
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Welcoming @RadioKate to Audioboo
What does a space junkie do when her mission to conquer the vast unknown is taking slightly longer than planned? Well, you can’t do much worse than start work at Audioboo as our first full time Editor. Kate’s been a huge fan of ours since we worked together on The World Services Save our Sounds [...]
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Audioboo & Absolute Radio
We’re pleased to announce that the first integration of our iPhone plugin architecture has gone live in the App Store. In what is a UK radio first, national music and entertainment brand Absolute Radio has become the first radio station to integrate Audioboo’s new plug-in architecture into one of its iPhone applications. The popular Iain [...]
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Audioboo launches on Nokia (at last)
Nokia was actually the 2nd platform we planned to launch on after iPhone. However, the S60 build we embarked on in July 2009 was such a difficult, convoluted and ultimately unhappy experience that we decided to dump the while project and focus on Android. Fast forward a year and a bit and I was lucky [...]
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Audioboo iPhone plugin
Now you can simply include audio recording in your app. The Audioboo iPhone plug in is a small library that allows iPhone developers to include an Audioboo tab within their existing application. It launches our familiar recording and publishing views, as well as listing boos to listen to. In fact, the plugin has one thing [...]
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Looking for a Community Manager
Audioboo is now hiring. A few positions, most of them with very long names, but the first one I want to talk about here is a pretty new one for us. Until now, we’ve engaged with our users, detractors, potential paying customers and everyone else on a very informal basis. To be frank, it’s been [...]
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iPhone app 2.0
It’s been a while coming but the next generation Audioboo app for iPhone/iPod Touch is rapidly moving towards completion. Extensively redesigned interface to take account of all the extra functionality we’ve added to the web platform, new stuff like private messages and notifications (although not shown in this walkthrough). Take a peek Audioboo 2.0 Preview [...]
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RIP 4IP
So farewell 4IP, the great hope of the UK’s digital startup scene when it was first announced in 2008. A public investment fund to the tune of £50m to encourage the creation of new digital initiatives for the greater good; a digital replica of Channel 4′s initial analogue TV birth in the early 1980′s, designed [...]
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