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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Digital Mission to LA & SF
Well, we’re nearing the end of our visit to these two fine cities and I have to say it’s been great. The contrast between them could not have been greater and the meetings we’ve had have been really useful in helping us map out our US strategy. We’ve met Sony Pictures, Lionsgate, Warner Bros, Facebook, [...]