AudioBoo without an iPhone

Why back in the old days (2008!) I was introduced to the audio blogging service Utterz (which for some reason got renamed as Utterli).

It was great – by simply dialling a dedicated phone number it was possible to record audio clips, commentary on the go using a mobile.

It was even possible to send through pictures to join up with it and join a community of users with the usual friends/comments etc.

I was soon using it fairly regularly to report on events and even incorporated it into the MEN’s Labour Party Conference coverage of that year with two reporters posting clips.

So it was hugely disappointing when the UK phone service ended but there it was – services come and go, change and differ and, without a tipping point, that’s the way the digital cook crumbles.

So when I saw iPhone users busily doing the same thing I with the AudioBoo app I wondered whether I’d made the wrong phone choice.

Until a chance remark from AudioBoo superuser Christian Payne (Aka @documentally) led me to this;

http://phoneboo.audioboo.fm

First register your mobile phone number with the site and then you will be guided through a couple of very simple steps to link the phone to the online account and be given a phone number to use.

On calling the number, a recorded message, similar to an aswerphone, gives you the necessary promptes and hey presto! Audio blogging on the move from any phone.

Stand by to hear more in the future – for now there’s just a couple of test items on my channel but do feel free to join me.