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Today, during his keynote address at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had a big revelation: “On certain days, we’re consuming more Internet capacity than Sweden has as a country.”
Ek made the statement when asked why Spotify chose to use a P2P model, rather than centrally store all of its music [...]
Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I’m here at the last keynote of SXSW, where Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is being interviewed by Wired’s Eliot Van Buskirk. Ek will likely be revealing some new announcements about Spotify during this interview. I’ll be live blogging my notes below.
Van Buskirk kicked off the keynote by asking how many people in the audience [...]
Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Apple has set the standard that once every year they will release a new version of the iPhone. It stands to reason that this year will be no different, with a new model likely coming sometime this summer. But arguably just as important as Apple’s hardware refresh is the accompanying software refresh that comes with [...]
Fri, March 12 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
When Chomp launched eight weeks ago in the iTunes store, it launched as an app for reviewing other iPhone apps. The app shows you a stream of realtime reviews, which you can filter by everyone or just your Facebook freinds. The app is showing some traction and should hit 300,000 active monthly [...]
Tue, March 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
I first learned of Allmyapps at Le Web ‘09 when the company’s CEO Thibauld Favre, and co-Founder Aranaud Coulondre, grabbed my attention and enticed me into a demo. I nearly missed my flight. Allmyapps, a small but ambitious startup based in France, aims to become the “iTunes for software applications” as Thibauld puts [...]
Tue, March 9 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
It was only December when Google officially launched extensions for its Chrome browser. Almost immediately, there were 500 extensions in the gallery as many developers had been working on them for a while. Today, Google is saying that number is now past 3,000. And that’s significant because it’s already pretty close to the browser known [...]
Thu, March 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
