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Private Messages
We’ve launched private messaging on audioboo – the ability to post audio to another user that remains totally private but still includes all that title, image and location metadata we all love. In my love of hyperbole, I like to call it social voicemail. Others have called it Visual Voicemail, although that’s apparently already been [...]
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Streams and an updated iPhone App
We noticed a boo from Apple’s hometown Cupertino yesterday using our amazing semantic audio tracking technology (okay, we happened to have the app open when it came in but that didn’t sound quite as good). Ohh, we thought. Are they finally testing the latest update that we submitted last week? Sure enough, some time later, we [...]
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We’re funded
Since we launched in March 2009, I think it’s fair to say we’ve punched above our weight on a number of fronts. We gained audience & exposure, pushed out major platform enhancements and generally been pretty active in engaging with our users. A lot of this is down to the superb team here (@jdelstrother, @thomashaggett, [...]
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Boo election 2010
It’s finally the day when the UK gets to decide which party is going to hold the seats of power for the next 5 years or so. So we were chuffed to see that The Labour Party made extensive use of the audioboo platform during our first campaign. Their ‘In the Campaign‘ initiative was a [...]
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New Facebook options
Hot on the heels of coming back jetlagged this Monday (and a week late due to the flights problems in Europe), our very own CTO, Jonathan Del Strother, delighted me today by casually saying he’s updated our Facebook options available in the Settings menu at audioboo.fm. “I suppose you have to be techy and find the [...]
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Audioboo & @bobbyllew’s Carpool
When we launched Audioboo – March 2009 – we launched on the iPhone because we already had excellent in house Mac OSX development skills, which transitioned nicely into the iPhone development environment. But we always saw audioboo as a sound platform spanning any device – mobile, web, radio and whatever else we could find. To [...]
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Twitter sign up now live
So a quick update to audioboo last night. You can now sign up using Twitter. That means if you haven’t got an account, you can use Twitter to create one and we’ll pull your profile information from there and use it for your audioboo account. Sounds simple. It wasn’t! This should hopefully go a long [...]
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Happy Birthday Audioboo!
It’s Audioboo’s first birthday this fine day of 12th March. Phew! That went quickly. Just a year ago today, we received this email from the App Store: “The status for the following application has changed to Ready for Sale.” Our relief was palpable. We’d already been rejected twice: once for using the wrong kind of [...]
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New stuff at Audioboo.fm
We’re close to releasing We have released some more plumbing work at audioboo.fm and I thought I’d share with you what’s coming. Now, it’s going to look a big dreary at first since this is a functional release rather than a visual one. Hopefully the new designs we’re working on will come out shortly after. [...]
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iPhone App Release 1.3
Took us a while but version 1.3 of audioboo got sent off to Apple at 4.30pm on the 8th January. Based on past experience, we thought it wouldn’t be okayed for 3/4 weeks. We were then pleasantly surprised to receive an email at 11.17pm the same day saying that they had approved the update. Kudos [...]
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