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Archive for July 2009
Spotify iPhone app days away
The long awaited Spotify iPhone application has been submitted to Apple for approval and already several details have emerged: – Ability to take your playlists with you – Download songs or playlists to listen offline – Search for new tracks – Of course being an iPhone app, you can’t run it in the background while … Continue reading
Does Linux plus Chrome really equal a new OS?
Enjoy Fake Steve Blog’s wonderfully cynical take on this here. Certainly Google and many others would beg to differ…
Twitter = rubbish?
An article summary caught my eye in the BBC Technology feed this morning: “Thousands of pieces of rubbish are to be tracked using sophisticated mobile tags…” A click on the piece revealed it was actually about tracking household rubbish. Call me cynical, but surely that summary could equally be applied to most of Twitter? Don’t … Continue reading
Call for social media ROI statistics
There are endless debates in the industry about how to measure social media ROI and indeed even if you can or should. However, these almost exclusively focus on off-site activity on social networks, e.g. what benefits are there from a Facebook page or a Twitter profile. What is missing are credible statistics that cover on-site … Continue reading
Spotify trials Free audiobook
Spotify’s music streaming service is trialling its first audiobook, appropriately enough Chris Anderson’s much hyped ‘Free: the future of a radical price’. This is available to users in the UK only. Spotify remain coy over whether this will become a business for them, but hint that a successful trial may lead to further additions to … Continue reading
