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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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Audioboo does the Royal Wedding
I have no idea quite how this came about, but I appear to have put my sanity and credibility on the line to pull off a Royal Wedding stunt for Audioboo. So, we know there is a royal wedding going on, we know there are street parties going on, we also know that I’m called [...]
SERVER DOWNTIME
On Wednesday 13th April 12pm GMT (1pm BST, 8am EST, 5am PST) we will be substantially upgrading our servers. Unfortunately that means the for at least 30 minutes (and potentially longer) you will not be able to access Audioboo on the web or upload new files. Also, embedded players won’t play audio until we’re done [...]
Hello boo family!
Kate here – finally managed to scratch out a bit of time to come and say hello. It’s been a busy couple of weeks since I first arrived here at Audioboo Towers, much of it writing out post-it notes about things that are on my wish-list for Audioboo. Anyway, I suppose I should introduce myself [...]
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 [...]
audioMo
Hello, my name is Adam and I’m the latest addition to the Audioboo team. In this post I’m going to try to convince you to take part in audioMo; posting a boo a day in the space of a month. Background: In the month of November, creatives from all over the world have embarked upon individual [...]
The Media Festival 09
I was luckly enough to be in Manchester last week at The Media Festival, which attracted a whole host of talented speakers from TV, internet, politics and more. I spoke on a panel entitled Radio Reinvented, along with Chris Kimber from the BBC, Jon Gaunt from Sun Radio and Fred Bolza from Sony Music. What [...]
Vodafone Clicks Competition 25th September
We are more than happy to be presenting in Amsterdam next week at the final of the annual Vodafone Clicks competition. Vodafone Mobile Clicks is an international, high profile contest for the best mobile internet startup. Selected by a professional jury in three different jury rounds, we’re got through to the final judging event. The [...]