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A Recap Of The Daniel Ek SXSW Spotify Keynote — In Rap Form

Whenever there’s a big event, like SXSW, we usually have people there to live-blog the important keynotes and/or write recaps of it afterwards. I’m not gonna lie, sometimes those are boring. You know what’s better? Rap songs that recap keynotes.
Hip-hop artist SaulPaul has released a video on YouTube which recaps the keynote Spotify CEO Daniel [...]

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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Spotify Consumes More Internet Capacity Than All Of Sweden

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 [...]

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Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Live Blog: Spotify CEO Daniel Ek Says Music Service Now Has 320,000 Paid Subscribers

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 [...]

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Wed, March 17 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments