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Audioboo Plus!
Hooray! Audioboo Plus is here and ready to be released to the masses. No longer will have to curtail your musings to fit the free account limit! Never again will you have to contemplate where to host your podcasts or worry about streaming and bandwidth limits. Audioboo Plus makes podcasting so simple that you can [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
New things to play with!
Here at Audioboo HQ we often get asked the best way to gain more Audioboo followers, to which I offer several responses. The first, is that Audioboo is more like YouTube and Flickr than Twitter, i.e. the number of followers you have doesn’t necessarily reflect the number of people enjoying your content. Think about how [...]
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