AudioBoo is a website which allows users to post and share sound files. AudioBoo was developed by UK-based BestBefore and partially funded by Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 and was launched in March 2009.

Technology

AudioBoo allows smartphone users to record and playback digital recordings of up to 5 minutes long which can then be posted on the AudioBoo website where users have their own pages or channels akin to Twitter

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 or YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

. These recordings are referred to as 'boos' and photos can be added to the boo from the iPhone library or your Android phone along with a title, geotagging and category tagging. Uploading an AudioBoo can be done with an iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

, a Google Android Phone, directly through the website or via boomail, a service that lets you upload a boo via email.

Popularity

AudioBoo gained recognition through the Guardian Media 100 in 2010, as AudioBoo's creator Mark Rock being featured at position 14 on the chart..

Notable Users

• Stephen Fry
  Stephen Fry
  Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also...
  
   has promoted the website
• BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles
  Chris Moyles
  Christopher David Moyles is an English radio and television presenter and author, who currently presents The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 and Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on Channel 4....
  
   has also promoted the site.
• Leo Laporte
  Leo Laporte
  Léo Gordon Laporte is an Emmy Award winning, American technology broadcaster, author, and entrepreneur. A former resident of Providence, Rhode Island, he now lives in Petaluma, California with his wife Jennifer and two children, Abby and Henry....
  
   has been using it to document his trip to China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
  .

Alternatives

Cinch is a similar service that doesn't impose a time limit, but is heavy in its advertising.