Breadth of knowledge
A year and a half since he left the University of Cambridge with a Computer Science degree, Hagget is now ‘hands-on working with the website as well as the iPhone application’. Hagget says, ‘college gave me a really nice grounding and a really good breadth of knowledge. In terms of what I do now, day-to-day, it’s mostly about being able to pick things up, play with them for a few days and work from there.’

The company are currently waiting to hear from Apple on the date when Audioboo will be available for downloading from the Apple applications store. Audioboo is one of a number of applications to come out of London-based company Bestbeforemedia. The idea, explains Hagget, is born from another product, Videoboo, which ‘records a video piece, then uploads it to places like Youtube and Brightcove and other video hosting sites’. They thought they could develop an equivalent tool for audio on mobile phones.

Three-button publishing
‘We are trying to develop an audio tool and platform,’ says Hagget, ‘that can integrate into lots of other sites, tools and technologies. Rather than building a full-featured site ourselves, we are building a tool to plug into everything else to publish audio-snapshots for the web easily.’ Hagget says there are software recording devices on the internet, ‘but nothing that in three button presses will have an interview on the internet. We think it is a powerful tool.’ What’s most exciting is the use that people may find for it.