Mark Rock's Blog (7)

Just a quick one to update nobody in particular on the progress we've made on Audioboo since launch last Friday. * Integration with both Facebook and Twitter so that you can autopost to one or both * Subscribe to your or a users feed in iTunes * WordPress plugin to display your latest boos * Ability to delete, retag or make you boos private And coming this evening - tag linking, so you can do Twitter style # groupings. In terms of interesting things that people are doing with it: you must… Continue

Taken a while and it's a pretty old version that got through the excruciating process but you can now download Audioboo to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Enjoy! Continue

I don't know how many people know about the new JV between BBC, ITV and BT, Project Canvas. In essence, it's an open industry standard to enable set top boxes to stream content over broadband to the living room. Of course, services like BT Vision already do this but there's is a traditional walled garden almost exclusively devoted to VOD and run on a Microsoft platform. This is different: "Project Canvas includes Freevi… Continue

I delighted to formally announce that we are now able to share the news that AudioBoo, an innovative audio platform powered by 4IP - is ready to enter its beta phase. AudioBoo is both a platform and iPhone application which allows you to effortlessly record audio, annotate with a… Continue

This is interesting - Buzznewsroom.com It's a collaborative news blog based on the Wordpress platform. As they describe it: "What if Huffington Post or the Drudge Report were a collaborative news blog? Well, that’s us, Buzz Newsroom; reporting w… Continue

I wrote this before Andy Duncan's speech today at NESTA and feel a bit foolish for not publishing it last week, particularly in light of Duncan's focus on toolsets. But there were a couple of factors in play at that time that made me keep it back. Hopefully it still has a slight bit of resonance. Let me start this with two simple disclosures. Firstly, as a company we are already in receipt of 4IP funding, the details of whi… Continue

We been meeting up with Rick Waghorn to talk local recently and a couple of things have come out of our fruitful discussions. One is the inauguration of the VIP Club (Very Independent Publishers), which will happen at our gaff on the 28th January. Read Ricks blog about it here or mail him at rickwaghorn [at] aol.com if you want to come along. The othe… Continue