My Social Media detox ended up being longer than I anticipated…at least when it comes to blogging. I’ve been Facebooking and even firing off the occasional Tweet but as much as I do enjoy blogging I just have been…lazy…I guess is the word I’m looking for.
Anyways – I’m back and will post some thoughts in the next few days…on content strategy, brands and social media, the role of brand sites in 2010 and some rants on the music industry. You know: The usual stuff :)
p.s. Some changes in my work life: Bye bye N2 & hello freelancing = Drop me a not if you’ve got something cool cooking and would like to have an extra brain in your team.
Connected mobile music is getting more interesting by the minute. iPhone and Nokia users (to name a few) have already enjoyed the ability to purchase & download music directly on their mobiles. Last FM has also treated it’s users to a mobile version of the Last FM radio and most radio channels have created mobile streams of their programming. What mobile users have been lacking is a on-demand / streaming music service that let’s you freely choose the music you want to listen to.
Enter Spotify – the ground breaking Swedish streaming music service that has spread like wildfire on people’s PC’s and Mac’s.
(In case you have lived in a tree for the past year: Spotify is a music service that let’s you stream and listen to pretty much all the music in the world for free (with ads) or for a 10€ / month fixed price (without ads – my choice). At the moment you need to have an invite from another Spotify user to get in but a simple Google search for “Spotify invites” should help you with that.)
Spotify have finally released some more information of the long-awaited mobile version of the service. The video below demos the service on Google’s Android. The good news is that Android will not be the only supported mobile platform and that yes – it will support offline listening…sweeeet. Can’t wait!
But: If I was Nokia or even Apple…I’d take this sucker pretty damn seriously.
p.s. Message to the folks at Spotify: If you need someone to beta test the mobile version on Nokia or iPhone…feel free to drop me a note.
