It’s the middle of summer and things are heating up at Chirbit!
I’ve been working on some graphic clean ups, but the big updates have been in the plugin department.
Chirbit Wordpress Plugin
Last month I released the Wordpress Chirbit Plugin. It enables you to embed your chirbit post easily on your Wordpress blog/site. To embed a chirbit post in your blog all you need is the plugin and the short URL for your chirbit.
Example: [ chirbit: http://chirb.it/ghcKkPL ]
If you use it please send feedback and feature suggestions for the next version!
Rick Strife created a BBCode plugin for embeding your chirbit posts easily in a Bulletin Board that is BBCode enhanced.
To embed a chirbit in a bulletin board post all you have to do is use Rick’s plugin, your chirbit short URL and the simple BBCode. Bulletin Board Code as you may know is a way to enhance posts without using HTML.
Snapvine is no longer. So where can you go to record audio messages to share on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and pretty much anywhere online? Look no further than chirbit!
Here are just some of the features that chirbit offers!
Record audio straight from your browser using a webcam or microphone.
Upload existing audio files in wav, mp3, m4a or amr formats!
Upload to your chirbit account using a smart phone with a built in voice memo recorder.
Geotag your audio posts to let others know where you recorded them! (optional)
Categorize your chirbits into fun categories like “Joke”, “Rave”, or “My 2 cents”
Leave private audio messages to your friends.
Share your chirbits easily on Twitter, Facebook or Google Buzz with one click!
Feel free to contact me directly if there is any feature that you need or would like to see on chirbit and I will do my best to implement it!
I hope to inspire the users of chirbit to this kind of love, support and dedication!
I made some “Follow Me on Chirbit” Buttons today. I thought I’d put them here first. Let me know if you like them. I will try to post some other styles as well, as I make them.
I’ll put the embed code up soon.
Today I created a new category that may be of use for the Haitian relief effort. I am calling it the “support” category, and the icon is a little life saver. If anyone can think of any other meta fields that may be useful for this let me know and I will try to add it in.
The idea is that perhaps there are folks in Haiti with family abroad, but with no means of communication. Recording stations can be set up to record messages from survivors to their families abroad. This can be accomplished from a laptop or even just a phone (iphone/blackberry). A location can be logged in a metatag and an extended text area with Names, or other information can also be added. Sort of like an audio version of the CNN iReport “I’m Alive: Messages from Haiti.”
I’ve created a video showing how to edit metatags for a chirbit post. If this is useful in any way please let me know. Thank You,
I am very excited about the new top 100 chirbits page. It will update nightly.
I am working on more features and a better layout, but I wanted to get this posted.
Congratulations to Gyant [@gyant] from Gyant Unplugged for the top post with over 7500 views so far.
The other 4 in the top ten include Steve Shore [@steveshore] from the 88.5 Way Early Show in Fort Myers, Florida,
Guilherme Briggs [@guilhermebriggs] from Teatro de Bonecos in Rio de Janeiro,
and Corny Koehl [@CornyKoehl] from Oprah Radio/The Gayle King Show. We love you all!
There are so many cool uses that our users are finding for Chirbit! Keep it up and let me know if there is anything that I can do to make it more simple, useful and fun! The Top 100 Chirbit Posts
Every so often I’ll post a Chirbit Idea on Twitter. Here is a collection of the 13 I’ve posted so far. If you have a cool Chirbit Idea send it in! or share it on twitter with the #chirbit hashtag.
Chirbit is an easy and fun way to share audio on any social network, but for this post I am going to focus specifically on Twitter. Follow these easy steps and you will be sharing audio on Twitter like a pro!
Part 1 – How to share your Chirbit audio on Twitter
Sign up for a Chirbit account. All you need is a username, a valid email address and your password. You can sign up to chirbit here.
Post your audio. This can be accomplished in a number of different ways with Chirbit.
You can record your message straight from the browser using the Chirbit recorder, and your microphone or webcam.
You can upload an mp3, wav or m4a file using the upload form.
You can record your audio using your iphone voice memo app and submit it from your iphone ( This is the perfect way to post your audio on the go )
Click on the Option button on your Chirbit post.
Click the Tweet This Chirbit button. The “Tweet This” button will post your short URL and the Title you gave your Chirbit on your Twitter account. Currently you must be logged in to Twitter and you must click the update button manually for this to function. In the near future you will be able to choose to do this automatically for all of your posts via the settings area.
The short Chirbit URL look like this http://chirb.it/****** (the chirb.it domain followed by 6 alphanumeric characters) and will appear this way to you viewers:
On an iphone your chirbit will look like this:
Part 2 – How others are using Chirbit to share audio on Twitter
logos /ˈloʊɡɒs/ or /ˈlɒgɒs/; the word or form which expresses a thought. The written word in action.
In 1999 I had an idea to create a website where people could upload mp3 or real audio versions of public domain books. The idea was for anyone to take text from Project Gutenberg and record it digitally then upload the file for public use. Primarily for people with disability (sight or Dyslexia) or for anyone listening to it on a computer (this was pre iPod as the first iPod was not released until October 23, 2001).
This was 5 years before LibriVox. In 1999 bandwidth and encoding where not trivial, and the idea of user generated content was not as wide spread as it is today.
I let the domain go in 2004. ( I am not sure what the current logosproject.org will be. There is place holder text there now.) I stumbled upon the archive.orgwayback machine files of logosproject.org while thinking about chirbit and the direction that I see it going. I am excited about chirbit as a hub of user created audio awesomeness, and am even more excited about this and other ideas coming to fruition after long periods of germination (thoughts made into action). My hope is that chirbit is simple, useful and fun to all who use it. – Ivan
