App: Audioboo

by Matt on 29 April 2010

http://www.audioboo.com

We take a look at the 'audio Twitter' web and iPhone apps.

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Pros

Audio woooo

This is actually a brilliant little tool. It took me a little while to get it and understand why putting your little messages out to the world through sound rather than text is any better…

... but then I went and did a little roadtrip around England and this turned out to be a great way to capture the places we visited. It instantly makes you a correspondent and is possibly a better way to remember a place and it’s atmosphere than photos. Especially when used in conjunction with the iPhone app and it’s brilliant internal mic.

The iPhone app itself is a simple affair that on the whole just works: hit record, take a photo, put in a couple of bits of info and upload. Then go again. It’s great.

The package you get online is very neat: each piece of audio is accompanied by an image; a map of the location it was recorded; some tags and a title and that really does build a nice little picture of your journey/broadcast. And it builds an RSS for you. Could even podcast off it… it’s simplicity means it’s a pretty flexible deal.

Cons

Audio poo

It would be good if the iPhone app had the ability to record and store more than one thing at a time. Just because there are times when you are out of signal for a while and can’t upload. Although this might threaten the simplicity of the thing, I reckon it would be a benefit.

Other than that, the only thing we had a problem with was the name. ‘Boo’ just sounds a bit lame, a bit kiddy and genuinely put us off looking into it for a while. Don’t let it do that for you.

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