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Q.P. – Why Sweden runs the web

March 11, 2009 in networking, personal by Daniel Nyström | No comments

Nice article in The Independent on “Why Sweden runs the web“:

“Technology must be in the Swedish genes; in 1900, Stockholm had more telephones than London or Berlin. When Crown Princess Victoria announced her engagement last week, she did so via a video on the royal website. The weekend’s biggest film opening was an adaptation of novelist Stieg Larsson’s thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The heroine of the title is a young computer hacker with a flexible attitude to the law.

It’s easy to elicit sympathy for such a character when some two million Swedes use The Pirate Bay.”

It’s a long article, but worth reading:)

Note: Posts starting with Q.P. in the title are quickposts. No images just thoughts and reflections,

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From my stats…

October 8, 2008 in personal, reverse engineering by Daniel Nyström | No comments

… of search terms that got people to my page:

Reverse Engineer Spotify

Seems like people are trying to find a way to suck music out of Spotify ;)

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Spotify, best alternative to piracy so far!

October 7, 2008 in networking, personal by Daniel Nyström | 1 comment

Spotify - www.spotify.com

Got an invite to the free beta program of Spotify from my co-worker Sebastian (last one ;) ) and I must agree with him when he says this is a great application.

For those of you that have not heard of Spotify, read up on it here. In short, it’s an application that let’s you stream any amount of music for a monthly fee (about 8€). Later on you will also have the option of not paying, but having the app show banners etc. That option is only available right now if you have an invite.

Not only is the application extremely slim graphically, but the performance looks very good as of yet (approx 12MB of ram consumed).

This is the kind of thing that could solve the piracy problem for a lot of companies. This is adapting your distribution methods to a new generation (instead of suing it).

I’m not really surprised that it’s a new entrepreneur that developed this, but it’s kind of sad. If this will be the future and replace many other methods of distribution, what the f*ck was all the legal litigation good for? Why did they not spend the money developing new technology minimizing their “time to market” and other factors instead of ruining ordinary peoples lives. Makes you wonder…

Well well. Spotify is great though ;) Try a “day pass” (about 1€) and see if you like it!

UPDATE: Article at TheLocal.se about Spotify here!

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