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Josh Halliday interviews Mark Rock, founder of Audioboo | Media | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...mark-rock-audioboo-interview

audioboo

shared by Alex Street on 04 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • company's grand ethos: "democratising radio".
  • Twitter for audi
  • Stephen Fry is one of its most devoted users
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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
Alex Street

Foursquare talks TV Check-ins, badges, and the future - Pocket-lint - 0 views

www.pocket-lint.com/...rsquare-interview-tv-check-ins

socialtv checkin socialcheckin

shared by Alex Street on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • n we make the mobile experience more interesting in the real world?
  • about the power of how smartphones can genuinely enhance your life experiences.
  • nly four per cent of people use location based services
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