Weekly Round Up
Beatboxing, rugby and a brand new feature! It’s the week at BooHQ (w/c 12.09.11)
We’ve an exciting new feature for you! Hooray! You asked for the ability to add a bit more information into a description field on an Audioboo page and we listened, and now you can! For the moment it’s just available on the website, but you can log-in, go to a boo page and click ‘Edit’. [...]
Tags: 9/11, absolute radio, audioboo, Behind the Scenes, New feature, rubgy, rwc11
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A big red button, The Beatles and brilliant boos: The Week at BooHQ (w/c 05/09/11)
They’ve given me access to a Big Red Button, find out why I shouldn’t press it! Plus why the Beatles were compared to puppies and help celebrate @Sm2n’s 500th boo with us. It’s the week at Audioboo: A big red button, The Beatles, and brilliant boos: It”s the week at BooHQ (w/c 05/09/11) (mp3) [...]
Tags: audioboo, Beatles, Behind the Scenes
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Shakespeare, Dr Who and orchestral Tetris: it’s the week at Audioboo HQ (w/c 30.08.11)
Much excitement amongst Doctor Who fans as David Tennant co-hosted the Absolute Radio Breakfast show and listeners were asked to Audioboo in their questions for him. We also enjoyed the debate about whether Shakespeare was a fraud, with the 60 minutes with Shakespeare crew and got invited to a concert of orchestral versions of video [...]
Tags: audioboo, Behind the Scenes, David Tennant, Dr Who, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Shakespeare
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Travel tips, lawnmowers and ‘Remember Me’: It’s the week at AudiobooHQ (w/c 22.8.11)
Jon’s been busy and has fixed the ‘Remember Me’ function on the website, the rest of us were told we were too young to go on a wine tasting session, and we helped the UK Foreign and Common Wealth Office collect some travel tips – despite the usual downpour in time for the Bank Holiday [...]
Tags: audioboo, Behind the Scenes, iRig, Libya, Remember Me
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Open source, storytelling and a goat cam: It’s the week at BooHQ (08.08.11)
Lots going on in the office this week! We’ve open-sourced the Android app code, I had a tour of a police car, Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf’s Kryten) began to release his book via Audioboo and we launched the Settle Storytelling competition. Hear the full story: Open source, storytelling and a goat cam: It”s the week [...]
Tags: android, audioboo, Behind the Scenes, Libya, Mark Rock, news, Red Dwarf, storytelling
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Reflecting on the riots – a busy Week at Boo HQ (w/c 08.08.11)
Well it certainly wasn’t my usual week at work. With riots breaking out across the country, Audioboo became a great place for people to tell their stories, share their thoughts and post their content. We served tea to police, listened to impassioned rants and got-to-be-heard-to-be-believed interviews with looters, heartbreaking stories and police updates. Not to [...]
Tags: #londonriots, #riotcleanup, #ukriots, audioboo, Behind the Scenes, community, London, news, update
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Air-guitar, Cornish Britney Spears and Bletchley Park: The Week at Boo HQ (w/c 1.8.11)
It’s been a busy week at Boo Towers – first it was breaking a world record in air-guitar and then it was talking to WWII codebreakers at Bletchley Park. We certainly get around! Catch-up with all the latest news – Mixlr integration, European Podcast Award opportunities and what to wear while walking in Britain. It’s [...]
Tags: audioboo, Behind the Scenes
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Shuttles, Sheep and Shoulders – The Week at Boo HQ (w/c 25.07.11)
Apologies for the absence of the weekly round-up for the last couple of weeks. My excuse is that I had to be in the US to wave goodbye to this: Not a bad excuse I hope you’ll agree! So since the last instalment we’ve been up close and personal with the space shuttle, busy launching [...]
Tags: Amy Winehouse, Atlantis, audioboo, Behind the Scenes, BooMail, London 2012, Olympics, Sheep, shuttle, space, STS135
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Revolutions and lightning – an exciting week at Boo HQ (w/c 27.06.11)
The week at Audioboo is brought to you with news from two continents this week as I ventured forth to speak at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha, while the rest of the team toiled away in London. I met all sorts of interesting people and you can have a listen to some [...]
Tags: #wcsj2011, audioboo, Blackberry, Qatar
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Poetry, pearls of wisdom and a sad goodbye – The Week at Audioboo 20/6/11
This week has been all about building connections with our users. From journalists, podcasters and parents, to teachers and poets. Entertainment News sent us chocolate, Jon Ronson made us laugh and a poet summed up the feeling of your mind being in several places at once. We’re also sad to be saying goodbye to the [...]
Tags: @brainpop_uk, @markrock, @radiokate, @skattyadz, audioboo, Audioboo HQ, poetry, Robert Popper, wisdom
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