| Spotify Music Store Allows Users to Bypass iTunes to Sync to iPods The more features and improvements that European streaming music service Spotify makes, the more we here in North America cannot wait until it finally jumps across the pond. Today the company announced that its users will be able to integrate and download playlists onto assorted iPod, iPhone and Android devices from any of Spotify's subscription services. In addition, Spotify has introduced a new music downloading service with song bundles that make it competitively priced with the iTunes model. Spotify's mobile application, previously only available to paying members, will also be available to Spotify Free users, which account for 90% of the service's 10 million users. Why do you care? Because Spotify is coming to the United States and soon you will have very strong music alternative to bypass the walled garden of iTunes.
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Translate Your Drupal Site into Multiple Languages with Lingotek Offering your website in multiple languages is becoming increasingly important, but translating your content into another language is no easy task. But for the 2% of the world's websites that run on the open source CMS Drupal, that task just got a little easier today. Acquia, the commercial company that provides support for Drupal has struck a partnership with the collaborative translation company Lingotek which will allow the Drupal community to translate large amounts of their content. Lingotek can be embedded directly into Drupal through a set of APIs, which will give Drupal community members access to unlimited language translations.
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Knock Knock. Who's There? Pandora! (Pandora Got Comedy, Get It?) Pandora has been one of our favorite online destinations for streaming music recommendations for years now, but today, the site has gone one step further - stand up comedy. The site, which lets you create stations according to genre or artist, has taken this same time-tested formula and applied it to the realm of stand-up comedy, bringing the likes of Rodney Dangerfield, Mitch Hedberg, Rodney Dangerfield and George Carlin to its millions of monthly users.
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Breaking Up With Your Favorite Apps NPR music podcast All Songs Considered just released a show about breaking up with your favorite bands. It got me thinking about favorite web apps or services that I've broken up with. So in the tradition of Internet era music, I'm going to directly rip NPR's idea and breakup categories. In this post I tearfully discuss past relationships with MySpace, Last.fm and Soup.io. I finish with a love story that has a happier ending: Flickr. I'd love to hear your own tales of web app woe in the comments.
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Apple, Please Hire This Man And Implement His iOS Notifications Already [Video] If you're an iPhone owner, you know the drill - leave your phone unattended for even the shortest period and suddenly you need to tap through one notification after another just to get back to the main screen. And that means, if you're in a hurry, you ignore many of them just to get to what you're doing. iOS notifications are a problem many users want solved and one designer, Andreas Hellqvist, took a crack at solving it. Take a look after the jump. Just seeing the possibilities makes me sort of angry that I have to deal with notifications as they are.
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Bank of America App Comes to Windows Phone 7 Being able to do whatever I need with my bank account is one of my favorite parts of having a smartphone. Well, that and the 10,000 other things made simple by the tiny pocket super computer that I carry around everywhere I go, but today we're talking about mobile banking. Never mind envelopes and trips to the post office for stamps, I pay my bills on the bus ride across town and today, Windows Phone 7 owners and Bank of America customers can too.
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Business Card App Cardcloud Links Up With LinkedIn, Adds Events If I had my way, I'd never carry a business card again. I'd never accept one either. They're artifacts, relics of a different era and, more than anything, inevitably end up lost and tucked away in a drawer full of other business cards never to be seen again. Cardcloud, the app that promises to replace your business cards, has taken a logical step forward by integrating LinkedIn directly into the app and helping you remember exactly who that person was by showing you where you met them.
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Web vs. Native Mobile App? Forrester Says Do Both What is the future of the mobile Internet? Are native applications going to be the dominant form of digital interaction? Will new and developing browser technologies like HTML5 make the mobile Web preferable to apps? Developers, engineers, product strategists and brands large and small want to know what the future will look like in order to make spending decisions. Research firm Forrester took a deeper look at the mobile Web versus application debate and came to what some may find to be a startling conclusion: there is no debate at all. The mobile Web is not going to die and app stores are not going anywhere. As mobile usage increases worldwide, both sides of the equation will grow with it and become valuable aspects of product roadmaps.
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Robo-Bums (Seriously, You Need More Than That?) It's one thing to understand the coming robot apocalypse. It's one thing, that is, to acknowledge and accept the fact that robot overlords (or "roboverlords") will calculate the location of, and then crush out of existence, our fragile human souls with their gigantic titanium pincers. That we expect. That is inevitable. But this? This is too, too much. Robot vagrants, ladies and gentlemen, robot vagrants, are rattling and humming along our streets, beeping and booping and sticking their little metal clamps into the faces of old ladies and children. The implication is clear: You give me your change and I don't tear your face-meat off.
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Q&A Site Formspring Continues to Focus on Building Community On the heels of a site redesign in early April, the popular Q&A site Formspring has launched a new feature designed to help users more easily find and compare the answers from all their friends. Aptly titled All Responses, the new feature will allow users to see everyone's responses all at once. While the site has long allowed users to ask all their friends the same question simultaneously, users haven't been able to see all the responses all together. With this new feature, whenever a question gets more than a single response, you'll see the number of Formspring users who've answered. Clicking on that number will give you an expanded view so you can see everyone's responses all in one place.
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