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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 [...]
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 [...]
Never be lonely!
There is a saying about how it is possible to feel lonely in a crowd*. We at Audioboo don’t want any of you to feel lonely, so we put our heads together to work out what we could do. Spritely young thing Adam Howard put his mind to solving the problem, and has exercised his [...]
Audioboo 2.0 for Android is here!
Android users rejoice! The new Audioboo app for Android has finally arrived, bringing with it such treats as queued uploading and private messaging. Look at this shiny new interface! It’s bright, colourful and on a par with the iPhone app at last. You’ve the option to record and save a boo to the upload queue [...]
We like sharing!
Exciting news boo fans! You can now share Audioboos from the new iPhone app with a simple tap of a touchscreen. We’ve been listening to your suggestions and top tech Jonathan del Strother has been working hard to bring you iPhone version 2.1 which has a number of improvements that users have been asking for. [...]
Audioboo learns some new languages
Top tech and iPhone app developer Jonathan del Strother has been hard at work to make the Audioboo iPhone app even better that it was before. The new update sees the addition of not one, but eleven new languages that the app supports. If your iPhone language is set to Chinese, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, [...]
Where there’s a Will there’s a Way
The Royal Wedding, watched by millions around the world, was also covered by Audioboo in our own quirky style. As the only girl in the company, and conveniently being called Kate, I was set the challenge of reporting on the party atmosphere in London and finding ten people called William. Oh yes, I also had [...]
Server Upgrade Complete
Hooray! We’ve finished upgrading our servers to ensure we’ve got space for all your lovely Audioboos. To celebrate, I grabbed technical wizards Jonathan del Strother and Colin Ellis to explain what’s been going on. Listen! We know you don’t like to be parted from your boos for long, but we’re really grateful for your patience [...]
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 [...]