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utstripped by the sounds of crises and uprisings

in March 2009, the site was almost brought down by 250,000 listens in one day during London's G20 protest

the spoken word can go social

Conversation has become very private

social networks really was an opportunity to innovate in the audio space.

judged the 14th most powerful person in UK media

Audioboo's iTunes-style micropayments model

Audioboo is to begin charging its heaviest users

charge a modest sum each year for extra recording time

currently limited to five minutes

Rock also has his mind on the company's second round of funding

wants to raise £2m

art of the investment strategy is to get some presence in America

traffic or usage data end in failure

gripe with the BBC is that they're more than happy to support the big-reach American companies, such as Twitter and Facebook, and yet not support small, focused, British startups

AudioBoo, which was partly funded by Channel 4,

Stephen Fry's endorsement to his 450,000 followers on Twitter also helped

broadcaster and gadget enthusiast has recorded boos, complete with audience participation, while hosting TV show QI and at the recording of the new series of the Radio 4 programme I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. At one point Fry's first boo was being listened to 46 times a second

hen Chris Moyles starting using the service and playing Blackburn's boos on his Radio 1 breakfast show earlier this month that it began to go mainstream

Letting your listeners generate great audio will really transform your radio station

It's difficult to convey emotions in text, but it comes across immediately in the voice,

AudioBoo channels for the library's sound archive to help members of the public build up its research collection.

pay TV market in Mexico is expanding;

lim's America Movil is already the biggest provider of pay television services in Latin America with some 11 million customers in 18 countries.

Telmex, which controls about 80 percent of Mexico's fixed phone lines, is seeking government approval to add television services to its telecoms services portfolio.