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1-vs-100_Cluster_Luck.zip (856 KB)

This is the closest I got to playing 1-vs-100 on the European beta launch before I got immediately booted out, so maybe I should be proud of that. While I like the idea of a massively multiplayer game show (and kind of surprised Nintendo hasn't done something like this sooner) there's still going to be the inherent flaw that NO ONE WILL GET TO PLAY IT!

Sure there are roughly 100 to 200 slots per show with a regular rotation of players, but when you consider the 17+ million people on Xbox LIVE coupled with the predictable connection issues of a world simultaneously logging in it's gonna make for a wholly unsatisfying experience.

Now I know not everyone might be interest in playing the game, but there isn't even the opportunity to spectate a show taking place. Y'know, like TV. You're either in or your out. Generally the latter.

"So I'm using SpinVox on the iPhone. I've recently been getting into audio blogging and the main reason for this being is I didn't want to type and speaking was easier for me. However I'm trying SpinVox out. It seems very limited on how long you can talk for. I thought you were able to use this to read and write a full blog posts instead of just very short segments of speech. Rather useless as is."

- spoken through SpinVox

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phonecast with Layerz.mp3 (6813 KB)

[EDIT] Removed a sizey portion of audio from the middle where we were just bitching about our respective workplaces for 20 straight minutes! XD

All credit due to iPadio however, successfully recorded over 45 minutes of us rambling with little no fuss except maybe down to human error. Would be interesting to see some on-the-fly keypad controls to pause the recording. While you can place the call on 'Hold' it still means x-mins of blank audio being recorded, with the pause function this could trim out those silences from the final archived .mp3 (however this wouldn't be avoidable if you wanted to phonecast live).

PS: I say "you know" WAYYYYYYY to often. Y'know?

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iPadio iPhone Conference Call Test.mp3 (333 KB)

This was just a quick test I wanted to run before going live later tonight. Fingers crossed all goes well :)

I was going to put up a luvverly picture with this post bust realised it showed my iPadio PIN, and feeling paranoid that others could then hijack my account I took it down. (Now if Posterous just let me upload an edited pic that would be grand!)

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iPadio NOT Live & Audioblogging Conference Calls.mp3 (869 KB)

[UPDATE]

I received an email from Mark Smith, CEO of iPadio that may answer some of the issues I raised in the podcast:

 

Wotcha Jake

 

Helpful comments – thoughts below:

 

Try this for live: http://www.ipadio.com/liveadvert.htm 4-8 second delay

 

Conference calling yes you can, this is me calling tanni then calling ipadio www.ipadio.com/tanni

 

Your own live you can see http://www.ipadio.com/phlogs/JakeFudge/ (click top right)

 

We only post to twitter on close off of call – we are planning on posting to twitter as call starts shortly – live state is hardest to do because of concurrency issues – hence it’s a little bit hidden and obscure.

 

Cheers

 

Mark

 

Ps We have given you a means to automatically post to posterious yesterday – see admin under soc net tab.

               

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Nights_out_in_Leicester_Terrac.zip (2593 KB)

Shout out to @Manwards, @Battou, @Kurishi, @Layerz & @Luciana27.

So me and @caffeinebomb are getting into a little discussion over the proprietary nature of iPhone apps (i.e. AudioBoo), when it's suggested by @psythor to try out the alternatives - Enter iPadio! 

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ipadio_3744_Jake_s_phlog_-_2nd_phonecast.mp3 (567 KB)