Walking through Audioboo from Mark Rock on Vimeo.
IN January I spent an entertaining evening down in London discussing different methods and techniques independent publishers could use to make a success of locally driven websites.
One of the tools featured was AudioBoo, which at the time was very close to being launched and offers an audio publishing service on an iPhone.
The developers of the services, Best Before Media, recently made it publicly available for iPhone users to install for free on their phones.
AudioBoo is designed as a very simple way to record conversations and then publish them to the AudioBoo website, but it is also possible to embed the recording into your own site as well as notify Facebook and Twitter of new recordings, or Boos.
As you can see from the video above it is possible to tag a Boo with descriptive words, assign a photograph and it also uses the geolocation facility in the iPhone to plot a point where the recording was made on a Google map.
The potential for journalists to use this was highlighted this weekend by James Hatts of the LondonSE1 website, who reported from a fire on New Kent Road.
The ease with which this service could be used during sport matches, local events and festivals, as well as interviews really opens up an opportunity for local journalists to feed stories back into their websites, as well as other corners of the web.
Audioboo: Can it be used for news reporting? Some case studies - Journalism.co.uk
But what about the rest of us that don't have iphone!! We are all tied into contracts and can't upgrade - and now we are being royally left behind...
Posted by: clare cook | March 26, 2009 at 14:56
Hi Clare,
I don't even have a phone with a camera ;-)
The chaps behind Audioboo are planning on enabling the service to be incorporated into other phones in the near future.
Hang tight, as hopefully it will soon be up and running.
All the best, Craig
Posted by: Craig McGinty | March 27, 2009 at 17:26