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Spotify keeps on talking about themselves, and that’s about it

In Technology on 19 February 2010 tagged daniel ek, mobile world congress, spotify, streaming music, techcrunch with no comments

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona was last week, and the CEO of Spotify, Daniel Ek, was there to spread some interesting facts about his streaming music startup. Mr. Ek stated that the average Spotify users has roughly 15,000 tracks in their collection, and all Spotify users together have created roughly 100 million playlists. These [...]

Mobile phone subscriptions topping 5 billion in 2010

In Technology on 18 February 2010 tagged cnet, frontlinesms, mobile, non-profits, poverty with no comments

CNet ran an article touching on the absurd number of mobile devices that are out there in the world. Right now there are roughly 6.8 billion people in the world and 4.6 billion cell phone subscriptions. The subscriptions should surpass 5 billion this year, easily. What makes me excited about this is that the number of [...]

Don’t be cynical. Please.

In Technology on 14 February 2010 tagged conan o'brien, cynical, cynicism, future, Technology with no comments

Greg Knauss has an awesome dialogue with himself of 20-years-ago about the current state of the world. We often forget how amazing of a time we live in, even with all the detriment. This post is a few weeks old, but came out at the same time Conan was going off the air. The main [...]

NYTimes on one of Google’s new local strategies

In Technology on 14 February 2010 tagged advertising, google, local with no comments

What happens when local businesses who pay the $25 for the special listing are the majority? Doesn’t that negate the attention you supposedly receive? Here is the article.

Ok You Luddites, Time To Chill Out On Facebook Over Privacy

In Technology on 12 January 2010 tagged facebook, michael arrington, mike arrington, privacy, techcrunch with no comments

Thank you Michael Arrington. Read it here.