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More Follow Me on Chirbit” Buttons!

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,

Ivan

• CNN iReport – I’m alive: Messages from Haiti – CNN iReport posts video of survivors in Haiti.
• Looking for loved ones in Haiti – Name Database
• Red Cross Locate your relatives in Haiti link
• Connect with your loved ones in Haiti – Missing people list
• Earthquake Haiti facebook page

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.

1. Tell a joke like @smouty66 http://chirb.it/a0nFzD
2. You can record a chribit straight from your browser using a mic or a webcam for up to 2 minutes
3. Audacity is your friend – http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ – free open source recording and editing app
4. Post your favorite movie quote and share it! http://chirb.it/t0y8OO – We are the music makers, the dreamers of the dreams
5. Take some weight off of your shoulders. Apologize to someone http://chirb.it/3qG5mO
6. Read a poem to someone – http://chirb.it/JGxpqk – T. S. Eliot’s – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
7. How do you pronounce that? If you know another language or a hard to pronounce word. Share it. http://chirb.it/sHD7ND
8. Click the little gear icon to access additional tools. Edit, reply to, delete a chirbit or get a short URL.
9. Show off your awesome voice like Bryan Cox @coxtox http://chirb.it/5CMeNA
10. You can search for chirbits by keyword, description and category then share them easily on twitter with our short URLs
11. To see how others are sharing audio on twitter with chirbit search twitter with keyword ‘chirb.it‘ (our short URL)
12. What is your favorite quote or saying? Record it and share it.
13. If you want to use a high quality USB mic with chirbit, right click on the recorder to change your input device.

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

1. 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.
2. 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 )

   

3. Click on the Option button on your Chirbit post.



4. 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

Check out how others are using Chirbit with Twitter by searching twitter with the term “chirb.it”

Some examples of Chirbit posts

• Poetry Nystagmus by Lloyd Fletcher
• Short Snippets from a longer Podcast Jeff Thinks He Has the Bird Flu… Riiight
• Your favorite Movie Quote The Snozzberries taste like Snozzberries!
• Audio Tweets Crazy golf
• Share music you’ve made Melancholie
• Sound Bites Charlie ringtone
• Pronunciations How do you pronounce Che?

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).

Project Gutenberg as it appeared in May of 2000

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.org wayback 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

Chirbit has one ticket available for tonight’s sold out Mashable Mixer in Atlanta. If you want to go, sign up to chirbit and record a message telling me why you want to go, tell me a great joke, or sing a song, (anything really as long as it is fun and creative) and tag it with “mashlanta”. I will pick the best answer at 3:30PM today. I will announce it on our twitter account and notify you by email. Don’t forget to send me a note on our twitter account (@chirbit) ideally with a link to the chirbit you recorded.

We are thrilled to formally introduce Chirbit to the Atlanta social media community at the upcoming Mashable/Regator Mixer. We look forward to meeting all new and future Chirbit users at this high profile event.

Look for the Chirbit table and please introduce yourselves. We won’t bite. If you were not able to snag one of the hottest tickets in town while they were available and still want to meet us, join us for the Mashable after party at Brewhouse in Little 5 Points.

Date: Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Time: 7:00 – 10:00 PM
Location: The Trolley Barn, 963 Edgewood Avenue, NE, Atlanta, GA
What’s included? Top-notch networking opportunities, an open bar, DJ set from Preston Craig of kissatlanta.com, light hors d’oeuvres, and good times.
Socialize: Facebook , Meetup , Upcoming

More Details are available at the Mashable Mixer page and the Regator blog

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The little red tab on the side of our site is a shiny red reminder for user feedback. I signed up for User Voice because I love their easy to use interface. Please sign up and post your feedback. You can vote on someone else’s feedback, make a suggestion on our forum or just click on the handy little red tab on the side. If any part of the user experience on Chirbit is not fun or intuitive let us know. We want to make Chirbit as easy to use as possible.

I am excited to see what uses you come up with on Chirbit. I have enjoyed smouty66′s Joke of the Day posts. Keep it up Howard! This coming week we will be hosting a contest with Linuxartist for the most creative Linux design based post or use of Chirbit. More details on that early next week.