How to broadcast yourself on the web
Not content with making us more efficient at work and giving us the best tools for getting things done at home Darika Ahrens, high chieftain of social media, has gathered together all the best tools for broadcasting yourself all over the web.
We’ve come a long way since lonelygirl15 took to her webcam and broadcast herself to the world. Now, there are even more tools available to (borrowing a phrase from YouTube) broadcast yourself.
Here are some great tools that are out there and free right now.
ipadio
AudioBoo brought us phone-to-audio blogging (aka phlogging) and ipadio takes it one step further, live casting audio from your phone and via your blog, Facebook or Twitter.
This is one to watch.
Tip: Don’t get stung by freephone charges when calling from your mobile phone. This is one part of ipadio which should be improved by recognising most people will be blogging/phlogging from their smartphone device.
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