What are the best songs to get you going when you need to think/be inspired/knock out a Powerpoint? Here’s a collaborative Spotify playlist to accumulate the favourite tracks of Planners around the world (or at least where there’s Spotify). It’s still in the early stages, so please add a few tracks, but as it’s all [...]
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Planning anthems – music to think to
Posted in Music, tagged anthems, Music, planners, planning on January 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Spotify Get it Right, As Do Apple
Posted in Media, Music, tagged android, apple, freemium, google, iphone, iTunes, phone, smart, Spotify on September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My posts from a few months ago were pushing for Spotify to get their service mobile. Now with the announcement that Apple have (quite surprisingly) given the thumbs up to the Spotify iPhone app & todays release of the smartphone app, I thought I would also add my thumbs up to what could be the [...]
Pandora Lights The Way For Spotify
Posted in Music, tagged application, iphone, iTunes, pandora, Spotify on May 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A while ago I put together my case for how Spotify could revitalise the music industry. So far the stats supporting that are gradually growing, but it’s yet to prove as spectacular as I anticipated, something that Daniel Ek the co-founder of Spotify has put down to the current economic climate. At the time of [...]
Turn it Up to 11!
Posted in Design, Music, Web, tagged digg, flickr, guitar on February 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A very clever store front design proving that an innovative approach can allow small businesses to gain exposure without having to throw cash around. The shop is an independant in Southampton, England that has hit the front page on Digg after being posted on Flickr. Go Web 2.0!
Spot On? The Program Pioneering the Future of the Music Industry
Posted in Music, Web, tagged advertisment, iTunes, Music, Spotify on February 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve recently come across an application called “Spotify”, many of you may well have already stumbled across reference to it on the net or possibly recieved an invite to gain access to the application which is currently in its Beta stage. It’s best described as “iTunes on demand” with no price to pay per track. [...]
Infrastructure Doesn’t Make A Brand
Posted in Food & Drink, Music, Promotion, TV, tagged absolute, adminstration, aviva, brand, infrastructure, marathon, mars, norwich union, Radio, recession, snickers, virgin, zavvi on January 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
With news today that Absolute radio has lost 461,000 listeners since it was re-branded from Virgin radio, the growing trend of new brands failing even with established infrastructure continues. Absolute follow their fellow Virgin-re-branders Zavvi into a situation where the change in brand has seen problems arise. At least Absolute had a go at establishing [...]
Lennon Loves Laptops
Posted in Music, TV, Web, tagged dead, Digital, Heroes, Hiro, John Lennon, Laptops, Masio Oka, OLPC, The Beatles on December 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
John Lennon has been used in a US advert for charity One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) 28 years after being shot dead in New York. The initiative aims to give each child in developing countries a solar powered laptop in order to give them access to the wealth of knowledge that the internet has to [...]